FETE LABS

Fete Labs/Ecosystem/Montserrat

OECS · MS · XCD

Software development in Montserrat

Montserrat runs on the XCD at a fixed 2.70 to the US dollar. A peg that stable tempts a team into treating two currencies as one thing, which is where the money bugs live.

The facts we build against

Not decoration. Every one of them is a field in something we have shipped.

Montserrat, build parameters
Territory codeMS (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2)
CurrencyXCD, pegged at 2.70 to US$1.00
Time zoneAmerica/Montserrat. No daylight saving.
Dialling code+1 664. E.164 digits, no plus and no spaces, for any WhatsApp link
Main townBrades
Working languageEnglish
Regional blocOrganisation of Eastern Caribbean States
Coordinates16.7925, -62.2106

Money in Montserrat. Montserrat is on the East Caribbean dollar (XCD), pegged at 2.70 to US$1.00. A stable peg is a gift and a trap: because the rate does not move, teams start treating the two currencies as interchangeable.

They are not. An amount is a number and a currency, and two amounts in different currencies added together are a number in no currency. We store integer minor units with a currency code, convert only at an explicit boundary, and never compare across currencies without converting first.

What the lab ships in Montserrat

Four lines, one studio. The same stack builds all of them, which is why the hardware and the app talk to each other.

Tier 1 · Fete Labs

Custom software for Montserrat

Product engineering for businesses and institutions in Montserrat: web applications, back offices, booking and ordering systems, payments integration and the data layer underneath them. Scalable architecture, type-safe low-latency code, infrastructure built to stay up.

Brief the lab

Tier 1 · Seed

FetePASS: one pass for every fete

The FetePASS ecosystem covers Montserrat as one of twenty-nine island editions: tickets, food, bookings and a local feed on one pass. Currently in private preview.

See FetePASS

Tier 2 · Hardware

FetePASS WiFi in Montserrat

Outdoor hotspot hardware for venues, events and public spaces. Lab Release 01, and the proof that this studio ships things you can touch as well as things you can log into. Agents wanted in Montserrat.

Become an agent

Tier 3 · Starter Lab

Getting a business online in Montserrat

For new and young businesses: a managed domain-and-site lease where we handle everything, or a custom launch on a domain you already own, built and handed over with the keys.

Starter Lab

Nearest neighbours

Great-circle distances from Brades, computed rather than guessed. A business in Montserrat usually sells into these before it sells anywhere else.