KURB Newsletter July 2026

Sunburns aren't the only thing sizzling, KURB's servers have been doing their part for climate collapse this season too. This month we dropped The KURB Report Q2-2026, the most comprehensive analytical resource on the secondhand designer market available. You may have caught whispers about KURB from your favorite fashion influencers lately, and while I don't know exactly what they're saying, I can confirm it's all true. We also put out Building A Bear, a blog to save anyone lost in the KURB sauce, tracing where it all came from. On top of the usual laundry list of tweaks, fixes, teases and bouts of excitement we are offering HALF OFF ALL KURB PLANS THIS AUGUST.

Despite cutting KURB Pro's price in half, we've been working three times as hard this month. We launched our first API integration with Lost In Transit, the best Japanese niche-spot tracker out there. Their app collects all the best shops in Japan in one place so you're never lost in the urban sprawl. Our integration surfaces the most recent listings from some of the most specialized secondhand designer stores in the world (something we're pretty good at). We have retrained our item classification model so that our prediction should be noticeably better, though we can already see room to push it further. Speaking of which, we audited every vendor on KURB to make sure we weren't missing anything, so search results across the board should be more accurate. We ran noise reduction on some of our biggest stores: eBay, Depop, Pop Chill while adding about 50 new vendors.

We didn’t forget to bang about the website. The vendor dropdown now sorts by vendor type and lets you filter whole sections with a single click and we brought that same functionality to the brands and countries dropdowns, so entire sections can be toggled at once. We added the ability to share filters, so you can build out combinations and send them to friends, turning anyone into a remote digital shopping assistant.

The center piece of the KURB month has to be The KURB Report Q2, our interactive resource covering the most exciting shifts in the secondhand designer market. It came down to the wire as we spent the month tightening the statistical methodology and vetting which brands to include. Growth showed up across a wide range of brands, from Geoffrey B. Small to Final Home to Blackmeans. We won't spoil the rest so go explore the full report and let us know what you think. We're already sharpening the next one and developing a new layer of analysis to better equip you to navigate the market. The report hasn't gone unnoticed by some of our favorite fashion influencers either, including Stanislav, mcyjns, and abouthashem, check out their content if you want to see what the hype is about.

In our latest blog post, the KURB team took a step back and reminisced about where it all started. If you've ever wondered how this project came together, the iterations it went through, and where it's headed, that's all covered (and then some) in Building A Bear. We walk through every version of this project across almost half a decade: the twists, the turns, and how we landed on building the most comprehensive secondhand designer search platform out there.

Is it possible for KURB to go four times as fast? Only one way to find out. Next month's sprint is anchored by the release of our Appraisal system, a model we've been training since the start of the year on our carefully indexed data. If you've ever been unsure where to sell a specific item, this tool takes the guesswork out and gives you real confidence in the secondhand market. KURB Pro users will get early access to our Appraisal model in August. With the secondhand-designer-clothing gods as my witness, this WILL be the month our clothing color classification ships. It's been a long road, but recent advances have gotten it a lot closer to production-ready, with just a bit more training left. Our latest blog post reminded us of our Discord roots, so expect some real improvements there soon, plus some long-overdue updates to the KURB Discord app. And for those still reading: there may be a few native KURB app releases on the horizon. BUT YOU DIDN'T HEAR THAT FROM ME.

Between the heat and the workload, we're feeling a little sun-baked and scrambled brain running on fumes and vibes. That's the energy behind this playlist, made for laying waste to whatever's left of our fleeting summer minds.

So stop playing yourself, get KURB Pro before it's too late. You do not want to be the only one in a room of secondhand designer baddies who skipped out on the $3. That's all the wisdom you need today.