KURB Newsletter June 2026

With summer in full-swing now’s the perfect time to sit back, relax and doom scroll through your optimized curation of filters that enable you to grasp the entire secondhand designer market at a glance on one platform, KURB! While we managed to soak in the sun and bounce between New Zealand and Sweden we also ensured to deliver on all the things that keep the wheels on the KURB bus turning. As a light summary this month we locked in improving the search experience while preparing for several huge projects for next month, turned our creative engine to put out more interesting content routinely and are hatching a plan to appear alongside your favorite secondhand designer personalities. Read on to get the full scoop of all that’s been happening this month.

Following the massive overhaul to our search technology we decided it was high time we worked out all the bits of friction our frontend has been jammed on. As I scroll through our version history it’s really hard to summarize all the little tweaks we did to improve the UX so let’s just agree it’s “WAY BETTER” and if that’s not the case feel free to challenge me on any of our public channels (but ideally in Discord). More concretely we realized that with KURB adding over 150,000 items over the course of the day someone with notifications turned on would be receiving non-stop pings throughout the night. To solve this, KURB Pro users can now configure “sleep intervals” which means you won’t receive notifications during those periods of time. We received helpful feedback about why we had limited favorites collections to 100 items and realized we had no good reason so we increased it to 1000! We’re still uncertain if that’s a good limit for a collection list but if it’s not we will probably 10x it again. We realized many of the features that would substantially enhance your search experience like filter exclusions, image searching, saved filters and device notifications are poorly communicated. To help bring awareness to these features you can now understand them a bit better through interacting with “SEARCH TIPS” at the top of the filter menu. Lastly, we have been reworking much of our AI classification layer to adapt to our ever evolving search technology so you can look forward to more cleaner search results.

Now switching on to the creative engine of KURB where we’ve been going hard developing more interesting content more consistently. Our brand guru JP has really found his stride developing the aesthetics of our weekly staff picks, where we will select a handful of exemplary secondhand designer items to showcase from across the KURB search engine. He has also been refining an incredible graphic communication of our analytical technology, offering in-depth analytical material on select secondhand designer products and how their market is evolving. While I’ve been unscrewing the brain-rot TikTok facet more and more to offer more playful and deranged insights on KURB’s existence within the secondhand designer ecosystem. And lastly I managed to finally sit down and put some time into offering a overview about the structure of the secondhand designer universe in general through our latest blog entry Birth of a Star.

Despite summer just beginning I've already begun to mourn its loss. To distract us from this foreseeable truth lets melt our brains into a soundscape of lying-on-beach-chair-brain-turned-off-crashing-wave-to-the-beat-of-our-suspended-anxiety type beat in this months playlist cycle. Sorry to remind you of this bleak future that we're collectively slipping towards but it's the only one I know.

Now with our feet firmly planted into the beginning of summer we can proceed with continuing to improve KURB on a weekly basis! This month was a bit of a relief because it had felt for a long time that we were really just accelerating everything we were doing at KURB at a clearly unsustainable rate. But lately we found a good balance while still being able to meaningfully improve the value KURB offers to it’s user base and ideate on what’s to come. As a little teaser over July we’re excited to introduce the second installation of our ecosystem report, introduce more sophisticated proprietary AI tooling to KURB, and improve accessibility to KURB Pro features. One thing we can guarantee you alongside KURB’s continued promise to improve your experience is our deep desire for financial stability. KURB is the world’s leading secondhand designer aggregation technology, entirely bootstrapped and financed from our love for the game and love for the ecosystem. For as low as $4 you can contribute to our ongoing existence while we sink our lives into solving all your secondhand designer search problems, if that’s not reason enough it unlocks access to exclusive search features like search and price drop notifications among many more. However, as we revise the technology we will also revise this deal so get in on it while you can. Every contribution means the world to us- giving more steam to fuel the KURB power house.