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About gonna.surf

Happy surfing! 🏄‍♀️ 🏄

Gonnasurf is a free website aiming at making it easy to decide which spot to go surfing to in Fuerteventura.

We're online since January 6th, 2022, and keep working to make the experience better.

Our users love us :)

Photograph of Jorg, user and surf photoshoot client of gonna.surf

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Cool Photoshoot Booking Functionality.

Gonna Surf is not only great for wave forecasts, I could even book a photoshoot for the very next day. Thanks Mehdi!

Photograph of Lina Leppke, a user of gonna.surf

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Great app that helps you to find the right surf spot. It is easy to read, provides all information you need and includes detailed spot guides.

Photograph of Nikola, a user of gonna.surf

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I love gonna.surf because you get all the data in one simple overview. Since I came over this surf forecast app, I only use this one. It’s super easy to read also for people who don’t have experience yet in how to read and interpret a surf forecast.

Photograph of Krissy, a user of gonna.surf

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It's a great app which explains the forecast very well. But it explains also the surf spots with all important facts so good, which is very helpful. The add for photoshoots are a nice add-on. Very well done.

What's special about gonna.surf

📍 Local and super-accurate

Gonna.surf is probably the only surf forecast app using forecast data from the Spanish Meteorology Agency (AEMET), which is much more precise than the other providers for the Canary Islands. This high-resolution matters because local factors (like the proximity of Lanzarote island to the North-East of Fuerteventura affect both the wind and wave patterns.

gonna.surf is created in El Cotillo and benefits from the knowledge about the surfing spots around.

🎚️ Adapts to all levels

Interpreting surf forecast information is definitely not an easy task, especially for beginners. There are so many measures, understanding (and remembering) their meaning requires experience.

We're doing our best to show visual and concise information, while providing extra details for more advanced users.

⌚ Time-saver - See all spots in one page

One of the pains of most surf forecasting sites is that they display the forecast in separate pages for each spot. To find out where to go, you need to navigate to each spot page one after the other, this can get pretty time consuming.

In gonna.surf, the conditions in each forecast point are displayed in one screen.

We're not perfect yet, exploring to find the right balance between the quantity of information to display versus ease of use and readability.

✨ Extras

Ad free

Aren't ads just annoying? Most of the time, they are irrelevant. They slow down websites, and ad companies tend to track an excessive quantity of (private) user data.

While gonna.surf might accept sponsorship by local or relevant, surf-related companies in a near future, we choose to say no to advertising networks.

Privacy friendly

Gonna.surf does not share your information with third-party user tracking companies (such as Google or Facebook).

Anonymous statistics about the visits are measured using Plausible Analytics. We host this system on our servers, this means that Plausible Analytics company does not receive any data.

Accessible

Gonna.surf supports an alternate color palette specially chosen for colorblind people. Activate it in just a few clicks.

Who's behind gonna.surf

Photograph of Mehdi, the founder of gonna.surf
Photograph by David Priester.

Hi, my name is Mehdi, and I'm the creator of gonna.surf.

Not so long ago, I was a consultant specialized in data analysis and business intelligence.

Right now, two things I'm focusing on are enjoying surf, and developing this website. I also offer my services as a freelancer at Alef.

Gonna.surf is not only me. My surfer friends in Fuerteventura (and elsewhere) provide feedback and input about the direction the project should take.

In terms of technology, some very talented and generous people and organizations help speed up the development and make the website look good, thanks to their work in the open source community. Some of them are, in no particular order:

  • OpenStreetMap and its contributors, providing the geography data.
  • Stamen Design providing these so beautiful watercolor map tiles.
  • Maplibre powering the map display and interactions.
  • Svelte making it easier to create cool websites.
  • d3.js powering the data visualizations.

How to reach us

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