A free community-driven surf report site, OMaui.com is my personal Frankenstein project that has evolved over seven years to whatever it is today. The site offers a daily surf summary and forecast, weather information, and a lot of other nerdy stuff. But most importantly, OMaui offers Maui surfers and all other wave riders an online community.
The site is visited by hundreds on a daily basis and by the thousands during the good swells. I’m proud to say that the site has grown in popularity almost entirely through word-of-mouth and has earned the coveted “home page” status for many loyal members.
The site is structured by Joomla, a free content management system. Several heavily customized third-party modules add functionality to the site, but most of the tools are custom PHP coded applications that I have developed over the years.
Countless hours have been spent nurturing the site and it has provided me with many years of enjoyment.