Couple creates a social messaging app for conversations

Where do apps come from?

That question is asked by all ages with the same bewilderment as little kids inquiring where babies come from.
It's as simple as it is complicated.

Everett native Britney Bachmann, 26, and her boyfriend [CWU alumnus] Garrett Shawstad, 30, created Talk or Not, a social messaging app.

Yes, it helped that both are techies. She's a graphic designer at PepsiCo and he works for a vendor at Microsoft on the Xbox Video team. It took them countless hours to fine-tune a name, domain and design for the app.

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Story by Andrea Brown, photo by Genna Martin