&yet

2008-2009

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

2009

• 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.

2010

• Moved into a new office
• Founded Doctype Society (complete with gorgeous crest by Amy)
• Went to Italy as a team because what the heck, why not?
• Started using Node

2011

• 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

2012

• 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

2013

• 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

2014

• 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

2015

• 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

2016

• NLF released dlite, simplifying Docker on macOS.
• Adam returns as CEO, short for Captain EO
• Adam Baldwin, Sarah Bray, and Eric Zanol joined as &yet partners.
• ^Lift donated Node Security Project to Node Foundation.

2017

• Hosted 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
• Launched Call of the Wildling, which uses story, music, and reflection to take us on a journey in pursuit of our own uniqueness

2018

• Celebrated 10 years!
• Stayed in a mansion in Walla Walla for team week
• Sold ^lift to npm
• Launched SimpleWebRTC — WebRTC and React, together at last
• Lynn Fisher joined as &yet partner.