Spot atlas are wiki-like worldwide spot directories; true collaborative websites based on active sports enthusiats. The wanna-communities are key elements of the websites. Members can communicate, plan trips, buld their favourite spot list/logbook and more...
Our platform is now available on mobile phones; the first release of Wannasurf and Wannadive are available on Android smartphones.
We offer a highly focused advertising and promotional opportunity for the surf, dive, kite and sk8 travel industry. A niche marketing opportunity to promote sports and outdoor related products and services at a CPM rate that is very competitive.
As with many successful websites, WannaSurf.com was created by two people in their spare-time, with no budget and no significant revenues. The original need was to share surf spots between a Tahititian and an Angolan surfer(!), find new spots and open these data with other surfers. Wannasurf was released as the first wiki-like worldwide surf spot atlas; a true collaborative project based on active surfers. This was three years before Wikipedia!
Wannasurf concept of the surf spot atlas was great and a new guy, who was a surfer and a scubadiving instructor, join the team to enhance the concept to worldwide dive sites. Instead of cloning the Wannasurf website, he built a new platform to easily clone the concept for other sports...
... and this was made a year later with two new wanna-atlases created for kite surfers and skaters.
A new community application was integrated into the wannaplatform; providing new great features for all wanna-atlases users: Favourites spot lists, personnal logbook, user photo albums and much more... This was just three months after Facebook opens to all!
Wannasurf partners with Google to embed some wanna-atlases information into Google Earth V5. Wannasurf, Wannadive and Wannakitesurf spots are now available into Google Earth > Ocean layer > Water sports. This great feature is announced during the Google Ocean launch October 6th, 2008.
A new mobile platform is developed; based on new web services provided by the wanna-platform. Wannasurf and Wannadive Android applications are released.
All wannacorp websites and development tools have moved to Docker containers and orchestration systems (Kubernetes and Docker Swarm). Our source code has been moved from SVN to Git and each part of our system is now handled with configuration as code. We gain in productivity, scalability, deployment easiness, operational consistency and portability.
CEO, founder of Wannasurf
CEO, founder of Wannasurf
CEO/CTO, the scuba guy
Wanna-sites would not be what they are today without all our community members: surfers, divers, kitesurfers, skaters... First of all, these atlases are user-generated content. They all are part of the wanna team!