West Palm Beach entrepreneur vows to create Surfr app

The Surfr app is moving forward, says Internet entrepreneur Nicholas Mohnacky of West Palm Beach.

He is now searching for angel investors or money from a venture capitalist to pay for his Surfr app development. 

He tried to raise $50,000 on Kickstarter, a crowd-source funding site, but raised only $7,037 from 93 backers by the February deadline. 

The problem, Mohnacky says, is "possibly because I launched the project in West Palm Beach instead of a major metro area like Atlanta or Los Angeles." More people presumably would log onto Kickstarter in those cities because of their larger populations.

Surfers need info

He still sees a need for the iPhone app that records surfing info in data and photos, and allows the user to get alerts when the surf is kicking up at favorite locations.

The Surfr uses social media to check surf reports, allow
check-ins, share photos and update a Facebook status.

Depending on where he gets the backing, he says there may be some privacy surrounding what he can say in public.

He hopes to have something to announce in a month or so.

Older surfers who are web savvy and have day jobs already search various websites to get the info that the app will have all in one place.

Paying for design costs

In the meantime, the Surfr app development is moving forward.

Mohnacky is paying out of his own pocket for the design costs. He will bring T-shirts, hats and mugs to the market, too. He hopes to move beyond the session log and social app to create "a lifestyle brand."

Still time to join the Spenwen team

This coming Saturday, March 23, about 50 of us are walking in honor of Susan Spencer-Wendel in the Walk to Defeat ALS. 

Susan Spencer-Wendel and her husband John
(photo by Greg Lovett)

Spencer-Wendel was an award-winning courts reporter at The Palm Beach Post when she was diagnosed with ALS in the summer of 2011. 

Often referred to as Lou Gehrig's Disease, for the famous baseball player whose career was shortened by it, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a progressive, fatal neuromuscular disease that slowly robs the body of its ability to walk, speak, swallow and breathe. 

If you can't make the walk, please consider a donation to our team. More than 70 years has passed since Gehrig died, as Spencer-Wendel likes to point out, and the cause of ALS is still a mystery.

The 2-mile walk takes place in Carlin Park in Jupiter. It starts at 10 a.m., but arrive by 9:30 a.m. to be in the team photo. 

Spencer-Wendel and her family will be there, and I hope to see you, too.

And now, for my numbers

I had my best walking day last week on Thursday, March 14, 2013, when I walked:

Steps: 11,170

Miles: 5.6