About Me

Jason Kester
@jasonkester

I run a little company called Expat Software. Right now, the most interesting things we're doing are related to Cloud Storage Analytics, Online Classrooms, and Customer Lifecycle Metrics for SaaS Businesses. I'll leave it to you to figure out how those things tie together.

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Expat Software Products

• Unwaffle - SaaS Trial Conversion Intelligence
• S3stat - Analytics for Cloudfront and Amazon S3
• Twiddla, the Web Meeting Playground

Business

• How I built a business that lets me live on the beach full time
• That time Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars
• Maximizing SaaS Trial Conversions (With Math)
• Bootstrapping overseas as an American
• Care and feeding of Happy Spammers (the joys of running a Zero-Spam public blog host in 2010)
• How close to Zero Friction is your signup process?

Software

• Happiness is a Boring Stack
• Getting Your Priorities Straight. Scalability and Performance are the Least of your Worries.
• Zero to Dogfood in one day
• exampleCode != productionCode
• Fixing Internationalization in ASP.NET

Travel

• Laid off? The one thing you absolutely need to do on the first day
• Two Weeks Vacation is only a Recommendation, not a Rule
• The Chamonix Branch Office
• The West Coast Mobile Office
• Getting it down on paper

The Good Ones

• How I built a business that lets me live on the beach full time
• Laid off? The one thing you absolutely need to do on the first day
• How to Fail at Freelancing, in 5 Easy Steps
• Getting Your Priorities Straight. Scalability and Performance are the Least of your Worries.
• Zero to Dogfood in one day
• exampleCode != productionCode
• Two Weeks Vacation is only a Recommendation, not a Rule
• The Chamonix Branch Office

All of them

• Confirmation Bias
• What if your bootstrapped product dies?
• Working the System at a BigCo
• Things Worth Knowing About Your Trial Users
• How I built a business that lets me live on the beach full time
• Chasing Trucks
• SaaS Onboarding Metrics for Developers
• Developers need to learn to negotiate.
• Happiness is a Boring Stack
• That time Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars
• Maximizing SaaS Trial Conversions (With Math)
• Bootstrapping overseas as an American
• Considering working remotely?
• A/B Split Testing for ASP.NET
• Cloudfront Streaming Analytics from S3stat
• Care and feeding of Happy Spammers (the joys of running a Zero-Spam public blog host in 2010)
• Why Internationalization is Hopelessly Broken in ASP.NET
• Fixing Internationalization in ASP.NET
• S3stat announces Self-Managed mode
• Cloudfront Analytics from S3stat
• Travel Map theme for Wordpress
• Google Adsense Serving Malware?
• CloudFront costs compared to S3
• CloudFront Performance Numbers
• How close to Zero Friction is your signup process?
• Canvas Rendering Issue in Google Chrome
• Windows Search gets worse!
• Travel Map template for Blogger
• The One Rule of DHTML Programming
• Laid off? The one thing you absolutely need to do on the first day
• No Magic
• 6 million hits a day. Time to think scale!
• Amazon goes down. Everybody flips out.
• XSLT Test
• S3stat in the spotlight
• A Naive Bayesian Spam Filter for C#
• How to Watch the Superbowl over the Internet
• Roll your own Web Stats for Amazon S3
• How to do all that website optimizing stuff that Yahoo recommends if you're running ASP.NET and storing your content at Amazon S3
• How to Fail at Freelancing, in 5 Easy Steps
• Navigating The Minefield that is Visual Source Safe
• Redundant is never Redundant enough.
• Sprinting
• Free Online Flash Card Software
• Getting Your Priorities Straight. Scalability and Performance are the Least of your Worries.
• How to rent an Apartment in Spain (if you're a clueless American and don't speak Spanish!)
• Twiddla - 1000 Signups on Day One!
• Zero to Dogfood in one day
• The West Coast Mobile Office
• exampleCode != productionCode
• New stuff at Blogabond
• Two Weeks Vacation is only a Recommendation, not a Rule
• How Google killed Search
• 6 things that killed Waifmail
• The Chamonix Branch Office
• Getting it down on paper