About Jum
We built the app we needed for our own Sunday game.
The problem that started it
Jum started with one community running one weekly futsal game, entirely through a WhatsApp group and a lot of memory. Someone would ask "who's in this week?" and count replies by hand. The organiser tracked the growing list, split people into teams close to kickoff, and — after the game — tried to remember who'd fronted the pitch fee and who still owed for it. Every week, the same manual cycle, repeated from scratch. See how Jum replaces it.
None of that is a WhatsApp problem specifically. A chat log was never built to be a system of record — it's just really good at looking like one, right up until someone asks "wait, did I already pay for this?"
What we believe
Organising a recurring game is real work, and it's almost always done by one person, unpaid, out of goodwill. We think the tools around that work should respect it — not add another app to check, but remove the parts that were never fun to do by hand in the first place: counting RSVPs, splitting teams fairly, and chasing money. See the tools that do this.
We also think this problem isn't unique to one group or one sport. Any recurring activity with shared costs and a rotating cast — a five-a-side crew, a running club, a badminton group, a pickleball squad, a monthly board game night — runs into the exact same friction. So Jum is being built to work for any community running that pattern, not just the one it started with.
Any sport, any group
It was never really about futsal.
It's about a group of people who show up for each other every week — the game is just the reason. That's what we built Jum to support.
Where it's headed
Jum is built to serve many communities, not just the group it started with. Any organiser can create and run their own sports community, bringing their own players, events and recurring games into one place.
A note from the founder
From our Sunday game to Jum
Before Jum was an app, it was our Sunday WhatsApp group.
Jum started with the futsal group I've played with every week for years — the people who patiently answered "Who's in this week?" polls, put up with hand-counted lists, and never complained about being chased for pitch-fee payments days after the game. And somehow, you all kept showing up.
You lived the exact problem Jum was built to solve.
In fact, some of you lived through the spreadsheets, messages, reminders, and last-minute changes that came before Jum existed. Thank you for putting up with all of it. Your patience — and the fact that we kept running into the same problems every week — is what made me realise there had to be a better way.
As we started building Jum, something became clear: this wasn't just our problem.
Any community that plays regularly, organises events, manages attendance, and splits expenses eventually runs into the same friction. Too many messages. Too many lists. Too much chasing. And too much of the organising work falling on one or two people.
So Jum grew from a simple idea for our Sunday game into something bigger — a place where communities can organise their activities, bring people together, and spend less time managing the logistics and more time doing what they came together to do.
This group has kept a Sunday game going for years, long before there was an app for it — that kind of consistency is what made Jum worth building. It all started with futsal, with this Sunday group.
Jum is now live. Download Jum and start organising your next game. Got questions first? Check our FAQ.
And if there's something we can make better, I'd genuinely love to hear from you. Email me at hello@jum.sg, or even better, join a community on Jum and tell me what you think from the inside.
Thanks for being part of how this started.
— Sumit Pokhrel, Founder of Jum!