Two Surfers Just Launched an App for Buying and Selling Surf Gear

New surf gear is fun to shop for...when the price is right.

Most of us have spent a fair share of time looking for deals on gently-used items on sites like Craigslist, Offer Up, and Facebook Marketplace.

But San Diego surfers Will Salvato and Brendan Donovan have created Boardal, a new app that helps surfers buy and sell used gear.

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San Diego's La Jolla Light reported on the app in the story above.

According to reporter Ashely Mackin-Solomon, Boardal was launched earlier this month and already has "nearly 4,000 users in the San Diego area and its videos have more than a million views."

As surfers themselves, Salvato and Donovan saw a need for an app like Boardal.

Salvato explained:

“As surfers growing up in San Diego, we were always looking to get new boards and get rid of our surf stuff to make space for new boards.

“Other apps ... were disjointed. They offer everything from toys to cars, so we got the idea to create one platform that gives you targeted information for just surf equipment. It makes it as easy as possible to find what they are looking for without the cloudiness of other marketplaces.”

Mackin-Soloman wrote that users can also "view the height, weight, thickness and volume of surfboards so potential buyers can know exactly what they are getting."

Salvato elborated:

"There are also different fin setups for different results. So instead of sifting through thousands of listings, you can type in your volume preference, fin preference and price and it gives you a clean and filtered number of listings.”

The app simplifies the process for sellers, too and "provides instructions on how to find the pertinent information for a listing."

According to an Instagram post, Boardal will expand to the rest of California "over the next few months followed by Hawaii and East Coast."

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