About | &yet

An &yet timeline

&yet is founded by Adam Brault, Amy Lynn Taylor, Nathan Fritz, and Adam Baldwin.

Built FrontDesk, a drop-in chat for websites (our first realtime software product)
Hit all the buzzwords when we tackled our first ambitious realtime client project—an IoT geolocation asset tracking platform with a realtime API, iOS app, and single-page app in Backbone, using XMPP.

Sponsored the first NodeConf
Helped start TriConf, a knowledge sharing event bringing together people doing interesting and unique things in our community
Organized Keeping it Realtime, a cross-communal conference all about realtime technology
Built And Bang, a chat and task sharing app for teams (also invented the Schwoosh! sound)
Founded ^Lift Security

Moved into a new office—again! And made our beautiful space available to dozens of local nonprofits, artists, and community organizers.
Served as major financial sponsor for Room to Think, our area’s first coworking space.
Adam Baldwin demonstrated xss.io at defcon
Interviewed cyborg anthropologist Amber Case, one of the pioneering thinkers of people-first technology
Hosted RealtimeConf, with a marching band, children’s choir, passports, kazoos, and a spontaneous closing talk from Adam Brault about Intentionally Tiny Leaders
Perfected the art of Christmas decorations
Started the Node Security Project in order to help make security a core value of the Node community.

Created Stanza.io, a library for using modern XMPP in the browser
Built SimpleWebRTC and Conversat.io (which would later become Talky)
Co-organized Brio, a conference about the vibrant spirit and ethic of businesses who care about people, think long-term, and seek to better the world.
Moved into another new office
Proposed including SECURITY.MD to GitHub projects to explain how security is being handled for a project
Interviewed Cabel Sasser and Steven Frank, founders of Panic, a company who we’ve looked up to for a long time.
Adam Brault presented People First, and Adam Baldwin presented Security First at JSConfEU, receiving much ribbing for one company saying two things should be first!
Hosted the 2013 RealtimeConf, which mostly has to be seen to be believed.
Henrik Joreteg wrote Human JavaScript, a culmination of years of collaboration on the &yet team on standardized ways of understanding and writing rich JavaScript apps as a team
Mike Speegle wrote “Something Greater Than Artifice”, which later won Kirkus Reviews’ Indie Book of the Year
Ben Michel composed “Realtime”, a soundtrack to RealtimeConf
Created Yeti.css, our lightweight, modular pattern library

Created Otalk, an open set of tools for building collaboration apps
Released the second generation of Talky
Hosted our first Node Secure Development Training
Created Ampersand.js, a highly modular, loosely coupled, non-frameworky framework for building advanced JavaScript apps
Said goodbye to And Bang
Started MUX, a local indie music thing
Bought a bus because what the heck, why not?
Started JS for Teams, which later turned into Human JavaScript Live
Contributed to the renovation of Richland’s historic Uptown Theatre
Started &you, a community mailing list dispatch that curates people and ideas in our community that are inspiring us
Helped start Fuse, our local co-working space
Philip Roberts gave the “What the heck is an event loop anyway?” talk at JSConfEU
Continued our contribution to Pasco School District’s Enterprise program with a promotional video, a lot of volunteering, and a great talk by Jaime
Went Christmas caroling on a bus, even sang Silent Night in a bank while Terry made a deposit
Took the bus and went sledding with yeti families

Built requireSafe, which soon became the Node Security Platform
Did our first Kickstarter for Talky. We didn’t get it, but hey.
Introduced Seaworthy, our enterprise consulting service
Eric stepped up as our CEO
Made the world’s first call between 3 different browsers
Amy gave the “Remote and Better for It” talk at CascadiaJS
Hosted &yetConf, a conference about the intersections of technology with humanity, meaning, and ethics for people who believe the world should be better and are determined to make it so (again, must be seen to be believed)
Released realtime text in Talky after being inspired by Aimee Chou’s amazing talk about the deaf experience of software

Announced the &yet Community
Created Security for Founders class
Added recording, broadcast, and mobile support to the powerful set of features in Talky Core, which helps our team rapidly deliver custom communication and collaboration software for our clients.