John Hobbs

  • Snack by Pack app gives you puppies in your pocket once a day

    Pack, the social network for your dog, doesn’t have a full-fledged app just yet, but it’s got the next best thing: “one minute of happiness when you need it.” Snack by Pack is a bite-sized app that delivers some of Pack’s best dog photos straight to your pocket once a day…

  • What Cheer trio joins Bay Area startup Pack

    What Cheer, an Omaha-based web application design and development shop, announced today it has joined Pack, a Los Gatos, Calif.-based startup building an online platform for dog lovers. “Working on our own projects has always been something that we’ve wanted to do,” What Cheer founder John Henry Müller, who started the company six years ago,…

  • What Cheer uses DonorsChoose API to highlight Omaha schools in need

    Charles Best created DonorsChoose to make it easy for anyone to help students in need. Last week, the crew from What Cheer made it a little easier Best spoke Friday morning at Big Omaha about DonorsChoose, the website he founded that allows public school teachers to post classroom project requests and, in turn, lets donors…

  • You’ll like this: I live in Omaha creators launch I love in Omaha site

    It’s only a one-letter change from a popular grassroots campaign, but it’s a whole new feeling. The team at What Cheer, the Omaha website design and development studio behind the I live in Omaha campaign, today launched I love in Omaha. The site, which What Cheer’s John Henry Müller calls the “I live in Omaha…

  • Prairie Moves: Jim Duval, Matthew Kirk, HelloQR and more

    Published Tuesday and Thursday (one day late this week), Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post,…

  • Prairie Portrait: John Hobbs of What Cheer

    Name: John Hobbs | Bio: Moved around the country growing up, but Omaha is home. Married with three cats, eight chickens and a baby on the way. | Title: Software Developer | Age: 26 | City: Omaha, Neb. | Silicon Prairie News: Your first dive into the startup world was as a developer at Town…

  • Bee’s knees! What Cheer’s Bumble wins Twilio contest

    On Tuesday, Twilio released the winners of its Twilio Client Developer Contest, and What Cheer’s Bumble took home one of the five winning titles. Bumble …

  • Four artists to exhibit at Big Omaha 2011

    One of my favorite parts of Big Omaha takes place not in the main speaking room at KANEKO but in rooms and hallways that lead up to it, which have played host to art installations and exhibits since our first conference in 2009. These artists, who have dedicated tens and hundreds of hours ahead of…

  • Pics from last week: Omaha 10-10-10, Big O! Show, TEDxOmaha & more

    Part of the Omaha Silicon Prairie News team – Jeff, Dusty and I – made the rounds last week to three events in Omaha. Kicking off Monday morning with Omaha 10-10-10 and then closing it out on Saturday with TEDxOmaha. Learn about the events in our “Out & About” post and check out the pictures…

  • Dialing up Call Spinner: Startup Weekend team stays on the line

    Call Spinner, a phone number that when called pairs you up with another random caller, launched nearly two weeks ago at the second Startup Weekend Omaha, September 10-12. Not only did the team of four take away the competition’s top prize of $300, but they kept and have continued to work on their service.