We’ve Launched! — BetterOmaha.com

• dusty
• August 22nd, 2008
• 01:08:01 AM

For those of you who weren’t at BarCamp to see the official announcement of the Feisty Piranha Project, we’ll make the announcement here as well! (albeit 6 days later … ) The project that our interns have been hacking away on for the past 3 months is…..drum roll… BetterOmaha.com !!!

Essentially, the BetterOmaha site is a news aggregator for the Omaha metro area, bringing in news from all of the relevant major local news sources (Omaha.com, KETV, WOWT, The Reader, etc), as well as local blogers who are writing great things. Think of is as Google News.. but just for Omaha.

Additionally, we are providing an Omaha Restaurant guide… with the hopes of being the most comprehensive, most usable, and all-around best looking restaurant guide for Omaha on the internet.

So, thats it! Exciting eh? You may be asking yourself… so Dusty, whats the big deal? Fair question…. The big deal is the approach that we take with our site…

We are 100% about the user

Basically, we are building this site for the users first, and for advertisers second. We want it to be not only the most useful site for Omaha information, but also the most usable. That means you’ll never find popup ads on our site. That means that our restaurant section is COMPREHENSIVE, even if a restaurant hasn’t paid to be a “featured listing”. That means that we provide commenting and reviews on everything, even if it might detract from advertising appeal.

Not only that, I think our site *looks* pretty darn good. And that folks, goes a LONG way…

All in all, I’ve sooooo incredibly proud of what the three interns (Allyn, Robert & Erin#2) did this summer. Kevin and I couldn’t be happier. I think its quite safe to say that BrightMix’s first annual summer internship was a smashing success. Not only in the product we produced, but also in the fun that we had, and the all around experience. I can only hope that you the reader had as much fun following along, as we had being in the midst of it.

So thats it… head on over to http://www.betteromaha.com, and sign yourself up for a beta key! We’re letting in a few people per day, so be patient. If you have any feedback at all, or questions, please don’t hesitate to ask… send an email to info [at] betteromaha [dot] com…

This is likely the last post on the good old Feisty Piranha Project blog.. for more information about BrightMix, of course you can follow us over at

http://www.brightmix.com

or, to keep up to date with the developments happening on BetterOmaha.com, you can follow the BetterOmaha blog at

http://blog.betteromaha.com

Cheers and we’ll see you again next year for our next internship!