Boosted Boards (2nd Gen) — 2nd generation of the electric skateboard

@rrhoover @caseyneistat Casey is to Boosted Boards as Ryan is to LaCroix

@jackdweck @rrhoover @caseyneistat Beautiful sentence, well summarized :) I found one 😜 Casey Neistat is to Boosted Boards as Niv is to GIF.

@rrhoover @caseyneistat Whatever you do, wear a freaking helmet!

@rrhoover @caseyneistat I think Casey was crucial to the craziness of boosted's success, but they had to create a really dope product in order for that opportunity to come along, so kudos @sanjaydastoor and team! :)

@cwrichardkim @rrhoover Thanks! You're absolutely spot on that the first step is building great products. Having people you respect and admire like @caseyneistat as fans and users comes afterwards. Product Hunt is a fantastic example of this. Success via a strong community of great people, but they're only here if they love the product.

@bentossell @caseyneistat @pointlessblog It's exactly like a Tesla, once you drive one you want to buy one. Same for Boosted, once I tried one, I ended up buying one a few months later. It's not perfect because it's a little heavy and first gen has limited range, but it's super useful and so much fun.

@georgelol That's some good marketing man. Those ref links are going to be all over the place soon.

@kyle_visner There are three places where you need to spend time to make a good battery. First, you use high-quality lithium cells. We use automotive-grade cells from reputable suppliers, which costs extra. Second, you design a great battery management circuit and firmware. Beyond the usual tests, we have multiple additional safety layers in both hardware and software and do all our engineering and testing in-house, again costing extra. Third, you implement great process control. As you scale manufacturing, what percent of products have defects, and how do you test and find them? We dyno test every board before it ships, but once again, at extra cost. We do all three of these very well, which makes it more expensive than others, but with a correspondingly excellent safety record and product rating.

@kesslerio It has double the range with the optional extended battery. It's water-resistant. Upgraded connectivity. Upgraded wheels and trucks. The batteries (and all the other parts) are modular for ease of upgrade/transport/servicing. Plus a bunch of other minor changes that make it an even better ride :)

@sanjaydastoor First of all, the product looks really great! I think some of your product FAQs need an update. Seems they sometimes still only refer to 1st gen boards… I especially like that I can swap batteries now. Would like to see something about this on the website though. Had to dig a bit harder to find out some more about it. On the flipside, needing a 4mm hex wrench to remove six bolts for the swap and that it will probably take minutes—according to your FAQs—doesn’t sound all too sexy to be frank. Curious what prevented you guys from implementing a more convenient solution?

@visavis_kid Thanks! Agreed on the FAQ and website. We're still updating both. Regarding the swap, you're right that a different mechanism could be faster. However, we also had to trade off environmental and mechanical issues, like water and dust, shock and impact, and vibration. When you add weight and cost constraints, it's a very unique design problem compared to other lithium batteries. On top of that, people use this like a vehicle, so they expect reliability months or years later. So for now, we chose mechanical fasteners because they were the best trade-off across all of these constraints.

@sanjaydastoor hey, your site's SSL cert is broken!

@gabsong Yes, sorry! The checkout iframe was secure but people were concerned that the whole site wasn't loading under https, so we updated it and things briefly broke. Should be good now, but let me know if you still have problems.

@orliesaurus What about buying one?

@sup Thank you!

@shoinwolfe We're working on expanding international shipping to other countries.

@shoinwolfe You can try requesting it on https://grabr.io/ (where someone traveling your way can order and bring it for you). Many people from Russia used the platform to get their hands on Phantom drones :)

@sanjaydastoor @shoinwolfe Please ship to Singapore. I've been waiting for the longest time. Have also reached out to Boosted customer service but no estimates on dates. :(

@miguelmendes We're working on it! With limited bandwidth and production ramp, we had to focus on a few places first and then expand. We'll be in Portugal as soon as we can.

@garysfw We're limited by the regulations around air transport of lithium batteries. For now at least, you can't get long range AND air transport without some serious paperwork.

@tpbtv I hadn't skateboarded before, and my fall rate is similar to when I was commuting by bicycle. Negatives are the smaller wheels require more attention to road conditions, and having power makes it easy to go fast. Positives are that I ride more conservatively than on a bike, since the cost of slowing down on a bike is high enough that I would try to keep up momentum around cars or traffic signals. I can also hop off the board or "run off" if the board stops for some reason and my speed is reasonable (<15 mph).

@sanjaydastoor well then it's going on my wish list! I'm not gonna live my life conservatively and it's a great mode of transport for summer vacation since I can't drive. I'm wondering. If I could feature the board in a magazine BahrainThisMonth.com and in the physical magazine that's distributed to everyone in the country. Which I can because I run some pages in there each month. And I could also feature it on my site the-photographyblog.com Would you consider sending me the lowest spec one?

@tpbtv Happy to look into this with you. Can you email us at community@boostedboards.com?