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Open Source Developers Want Sandy Back

There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth when Twitter-based reminder service I Want Sandy went offline earlier this month. While many people search for a replacement service, some users have stepped up to the plate and are working on putting an open source version together.

As Lifehacker mentioned, "A group of developers are working to build a free, open-source Sandy, and they're hoping to resurrect as much of Sandy as they can from the startup graveyard." That's surely great news for anyone suddenly left in the lurch when the app's creator took an engineering job with -- of all services -- Twitter and put Sandy on ice for the foreseeable future.

ReadWriteWeb's Rick Turoczy says, "The open-source project proposes to recreate Sandy from the ground up, ensuring that users still have access to the functionality that the original Sandy possessed. They're beginning to consider plans for monetization, as well."

For now, Open Sandy's developers are looking for ideas on what the initial release should look like. All feature requests are being logged on the project's wiki, and so far people seem to be most interested in features that the original Sandy sported -- appointment reminders, contact information recall, to-do lists, and so on.

Did you ever use I Want Sandy before the project got shelved? Do you miss her and want her back? Tell me your feature ideas in the comments (and, of course, on the wiki's feature idea page). You can also follow the project's progress here.

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