About fellos

Built for the clubs that keep minutes and bylaws.

Software for organizations that govern themselves — lodges, posts, chapters and clubs with officers, elections, bylaws and a chain of command. What it is, the standard it is held to, and who builds it.

What fellos is

The whole organization, on one connected record.

In fellos, members, chapters and offices depend on each other the way they do in your club. Change one through an approved request or a certified election, and the rest is updated in the same act. Six parts, in brief.

  • The Record. Approve a transfer and the member's organization, directory listing and history move in one step, and any officer roles they held at the old organization are released.
  • Elections. Nominations, prerequisites, campaigning, ballots and election analytics all happen inside fellos, and the moment the result is certified each winner is placed in the role and the organization they were elected to.
  • The Feed. Anniversaries and birthdays, election results, the discussions in your groups, officer changes and member changes. It reads like a social feed, and it writes itself from the same record that runs the organization.
  • Discussions. Search every post and reply in every group you can see, or put a question to Ask AI and get in-depth research back — a written answer with numbered citations to the posts behind it.
  • Documents. Replace a file and every earlier revision is kept: who uploaded it, when, and the file itself, each with its own download.
  • Events. The club's calendar, RSVPs and ticketing, each member's ticket priced by their member type, whoever buys it. One scan and one tap at the door check the party in, and the member's ticket page then says when, and by whom.

The same standard runs through the rest: approvals that route up your real chain of command, a store, dues by member type, and payments through your organization's own Stripe account, so the money goes straight to the club. Every administrative action — who, what, which record, when — goes into an append-only audit log that no one, site admins included, can edit or delete while your site exists. A fellos site installs to a phone's home screen and opens full screen.

See why

The standard

What we hold the product to

Premium, here, means done right. Three things, each of which you can watch the product do.

Take it to the last step.

A club runs on handovers: an officer seated, a member moved, a document replaced.

An election is done when the officers are in their seats, which happens the moment a conductor certifies the result. A transfer is done when the office the member held at the chapter they left is released. An upload is done when the earlier version is still there to download. Each one is written down where you would look for it: the history tables on the member's profile, the version list on the file, the audit log.

Officers rotate. The software should survive it.

Volunteers run these organizations, and leadership turns over.

So in fellos authority follows the seat, not the person. Admin scope, the Comptroller designation and the Election Conductor designation are properties of the officer role, and when the seat changes hands, so does the access. Membership changes run through the approval chain your organization configures, along the paths it has defined. Put the Election Conductor designation on the secretary's role, and next year's secretary inherits next year's election.

What happens in the club should reach the members.

A club is what happens in it, whether or not anyone writes it up.

The fellos feed writes itself from what happens in the club — with reactions and comments, so members have a reason to open it. A birthday, a membership anniversary, an officer elected or appointed, with the role, the organization and who approved it. Each member gets their own feed: their chapter, their groups, their chain of command. Members see what is going on in their club: everything that's theirs to see.

Who's behind it

Meet the builder

Ben Collins

Ben Collins

Founder

I led the Debian project in 2001, maintained the Linux kernel's FireWire subsystem for years, and ran the team at Canonical that builds the Ubuntu kernel. Most of my career has been infrastructure other people depend on without ever thinking about it.

How we operate

The product is the proof.

Read how it works, run it under your own name, and start when you are ready.

The manual is public

Every guide — Member, Org Admin, Comptroller, Site Admin — is on the open web, no login required. Read how the product works before you sign up for anything.

Your own domain and name

A fellos site is your organization's site: your name, your logo, your colors, your public pages. It can run at your own address, such as members.yourclub.org.

Self-serve, on purpose

You create your organization's site yourself and build it out yourself — the organization chart, the member types, the approval chains — with the Site Admin guide open beside you. Questions go to hello@fellos.app.

Who it's for

Clubs with chapters, officers and a process

Motorcycle clubs, fraternal organizations, veterans' posts, professional societies, alumni associations and social clubs with bylaws and a board.

The common thread isn't the patch or the apron — it's structure. Chapters, each with its own officers. Officers who are elected, and who rotate. More than one class of member. New members who come in through an approval. In fellos each of those is part of the record, because that is what they are.

See the six kinds of organization it is built for

Try it before you talk to anyone.

Create your organization's site and build it out yourself. Every guide is public. And when you do want to talk, write to us at hello@fellos.app.