&yet is a company of individual and collective possibility where people can be creative, take risks, and grow.
We are an eclectic group of designers, developers, illustrators, writers, speakers, starters, and finishers.
We aspire to bring out the best in people and to make everything we touch better than it was when we found it.
We are a learning and growing organization, always looking for ways to do better and to build on the lessons of our past as individuals and as a team.
Meet our team
An &yet timeline
&yet is founded by Adam Brault, Amy Lynn Taylor, Nathan Fritz, and Adam Baldwin.
Went to Italy as a team because
what the heck, why not?
Helped start TriConf, a knowledge sharing event bringing together people doing interesting and unique things in our community.
Built And Bang, a chat and task sharing app for teams (also invented the Schwoosh! sound)
Hosted three years of RealtimeConf, an immersive event about realtime technology that has to be seen to be believed.
Started the Node Security Project in order to help make security a core value of the Node community.
Built SimpleWebRTC and Conversat.io (which would later become Talky).
Rebranded Conversat.io to the Talky you know and love.
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.
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.
Produced Ben Michel’s “Realtime”, a soundtrack to RealtimeConf, and Mike Speegle’s “Something Greater Than Artifice”, which later won Kirkus Reviews’ Indie Book of the Year.
Created Otalk, an open set of tools for building collaboration apps, and released the second generation of Talky
Created Ampersand.js, a highly modular, loosely coupled, non-frameworky framework for building advanced JavaScript apps.
Created one-of-a-kind educational events JS for Teams and Human JavaScript Live, featuring live music, theater, and lab coats.
Started &you, a community mailing list dispatch that curated people and ideas in our community that are inspiring us
Helped create new spaces in our community including Fuse, our local co-working space, and MUX, a local indie concert series.
Built requireSafe, which soon became the Node Security Platform.
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).
Launched Call of the Wildling, which uses story, music, and reflection to take us on a journey in pursuit of our own uniqueness.
Celebrated 10 years!
Launched SimpleWebRTC — WebRTC and React, together at last
Launched Facecamp — connect to Slack, take animated gifs, and post them for your teamies to see. Chat your mug!
&yet spins off Talky, inc. as its own company, with Talky and SimpleWebRTC as its products.
Launched Wegotchu — digital cards to pass around and sign, even when you’re not together.
and much more to come!
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