I am a long time user of Sidejobtrack, in my opinion the best free invoicing and time tracking web app available today. And its free.

Because of my love for this piece of software, it was a bit of a shock when I noticed that Marie, for obvious reasons upon investigation, is discontinuing development and will sometime in the near future, discontinue the service all together.

What was even more surprising to me, is that Marie, thus far, has refused the many cries for the codebase to be open sourced. Now don't get me wrong I am all for people making money, but if you are discontinuing a hosted service, that you are no longer going to be maintaining the codebase of, then there is really no reason to not hand it over the community that has grown up around it.

I would be interested in knowing if Marie would be open to selling the codebase, and if so how much she would want for it. If the amount were reasonable, I wonder if we (the SJT community) could raise the funds to purchase the code, and then open source it as a community.

Yeah, that could be very interesting.