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ABOUT KLUBI

We built the tool we
kept wishing our clubs had.

Klubi started with a spreadsheet neither of us could find. Between us we've joined student clubs, helped run them, and watched them get handed over — and every single one was held together by the same improvised stack. A group chat for announcements. A form for applications. A member list in one executive's Drive. A shared folder nobody had the link to.

None of those clubs were badly run. The tools were just never built for the job. So every September the new committee inherited almost none of what the last one had worked out, and rebuilt the whole patchwork from scratch — while the people who wanted to join spent the same September trying to find out which clubs existed.

We're engineering students, so we did the obvious thing and built it properly: one place where a club's members, applications, events and history live on the club itself instead of in someone's inbox, and where a first-year can see everything their school has to offer in a single scroll.

WHO'S BUILDING IT

Two students who kept running the clubs.

Sai Patel
Co-founder
Software Engineering & Biomedical Engineering (iBioMed), McMaster University

Sai has been on both sides of a club: the member refreshing an inbox waiting to hear back, and the organiser with three different forms open trying to work out who had actually signed up. The second one is what started Klubi. He was spending more time reconciling spreadsheets than doing the thing the club existed to do, and none of that work survived the year — it all went out the door with whoever graduated.

He's a second-year Software Engineering and Biomedical Engineering student at McMaster, working at the intersection of healthcare, technology and entrepreneurship, with a background in biomedical design and research. He builds most of what runs behind Klubi, and brings the same habit to it that biomedical design taught him: get the thing in front of a real user early, and design for the person who has to live with it.

LinkedIn — Sai Patel (opens in a new tab)
Alexander D'Silva-Peters
Co-founder
Mechanical Engineering & Biomedical Engineering (iBioMed), McMaster University

Alexander joined more clubs in first year than he could keep track of, and the hard part was never the joining — it was finding out they existed at all. A hallway poster, an activities fair he missed, and a group chat someone had to add him to. Half of what he actually wanted to be part of he only heard about in March. Klubi's directory exists because he wanted one scroll of everything on offer, and to know which of it was open to new members right now.

He's a second-year Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering student at McMaster, focused on prototyping and on design for accessibility and quality of life. Most of his work is collaborative biomedical design, where the job is less about the drawing than about communication, iteration, and finding the problem the user actually has rather than the one you assumed.

LinkedIn — Alexander D'Silva-Peters (opens in a new tab)
GET IN TOUCH

Tell us what your club needs.

Whether you run a club and want to set it up, look after student life at a school, or just want to tell us what we've got wrong — we read everything, and we'd rather hear it early than after we've built the wrong thing.

klubiapp@gmail.com