About Kakime

Hi — I'm the guy behind Kakime. Sports fan first, coder second. This app didn't come out of a boardroom or a pitch deck. It came out of a very Singaporean Saturday: court booked at 7am, gear in the car boot, and not a single kaki free to fill the fourth slot. The group chat was dead, my old teammates had moved on, and I was staring at ActiveSG wondering if I'd have to cancel — again.

Why I built this

I kept hitting the same wall. Finding a regular game in Singapore shouldn't depend on being lucky enough to already know enough people who play your sport, at your level, near your block, on your free evenings. Most of us don't have that — we have one or two kakis who are always busy, a WhatsApp group that's 90% memes, and a court booking going to waste.

So I started building. Nights and weekends, after my day job, out of my own pocket. No investors, no growth team behind it — just me, a laptop, and a genuine itch to fix a problem I had myself. Kakime is, honestly, still that: a hobby project I care a lot about, built by someone who'd rather be on a court than in a meeting about one.

What "kaki" actually means

If you're not from Singapore or Malaysia — "kaki" (Malay, literally "leg") is Singlish for your regular buddy, your go-to person for something. A "makan kaki" is your food buddy. A "mahjong kaki" is your fourth player. A sports kaki is the person you can text at 9pm and know they'll show up at 7am with their racket. That's the whole app in one word — I just built the plumbing to help you find yours.

Why your profile is the whole point

Most "find a buddy" apps treat your profile like a dating bio — a photo and a one-liner, gone in a swipe. I didn't want that. On Kakime, your profile is your sporting identity: real highlight clips (raw, no music, no filter — the authenticity is the point), the gear you're happy to lend or sell, and the sport you actually show up for every week. No follower counts. No like buttons. No doomscroll feed to chase. I deliberately left all of that out — growth on Kakime is supposed to come from one kaki showing their page to another, not from a vanity metric.

Built in Singapore, for Singapore

Every decision — from the cream-and-kopitiam colours to the courts referenced in the toolkit — is tuned for how sports actually happen here. Badminton at the CC hall, tennis at the ActiveSG courts, a kopi round after the game to settle who owes who for shuttles. It's a small, specific thing, and I think that's exactly why it works — I'm building for kakis I'd actually want to play with, not a generic "sports app" for everywhere and nowhere.

Where it's headed

Slowly, and honestly. I ship in small batches — a toolkit of free game-day utilities (court finders, tournament draws, stringing advice) alongside the core buddy-finding app, because I use these tools myself and figured other kakis would too. There's no roadmap slide deck; there's just the next weekend problem I'm annoyed enough by to go fix.

Say hi

Got feedback, found a bug, or just want to tell me which court you play at? I read every email myself. Drop a note at hello@kakime.sg. Or better yet — download the app and find me a game.