Fete Labs/Ecosystem/St. Eustatius
BASIN · BQ · USD
St. Eustatius shares a country code with two other islands. Software that models a country and an island as the same thing gets St. Eustatius wrong the first time somebody enters an address, and the fix is a schema change rather than a bug fix.
Not decoration. Every one of them is a field in something we have shipped.
| Territory code | BQ (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2) |
|---|---|
| Currency | USD, used directly |
| Time zone | America/Kralendijk. No daylight saving. |
| Dialling code | +599. E.164 digits, no plus and no spaces, for any WhatsApp link |
| Main town | Oranjestad |
| Working language | Dutch and English |
| Regional bloc | Wider Caribbean basin |
| Coordinates | 17.4832, -62.9761 |
Money in St. Eustatius. St. Eustatius uses the US dollar outright, which removes the conversion problem and creates a different one: it is easy to assume the rest of the region does too. It does not — a neighbouring island an hour away may be on a pegged EC dollar or a floating rate.
Even here every amount carries its currency code. A field that is "obviously dollars" is the field that breaks the day the product crosses a border.
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
Product engineering for businesses and institutions in St. Eustatius: 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 labTier 1 · Seed
The FetePASS ecosystem covers St. Eustatius as one of twenty-nine island editions: tickets, food, bookings and a local feed on one pass. Currently in private preview.
See FetePASSTier 2 · Hardware
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 St. Eustatius.
Become an agentTier 3 · Starter Lab
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 LabGreat-circle distances from Oranjestad, computed rather than guessed. A business in St. Eustatius usually sells into these before it sells anywhere else.