Cost

Yes, this application is truly free in every sense of the word.

The source code is available online. The license is very straightforward and permissive.

Studios and individual dance companies are welcome to use it on my servers. To get started, you will need a password.

Alternately, you can install it yourself, make changes, contribute your changes back or keep them to yourself. If you aren’t comfortable doing this yourself, there are plenty of people who you can hire to do so.

For those that wish to learn how to write an application like this, this application is written using a framework named Ruby on Rails, and there are plenty of resources that can you started, including a book that I have written.

Should you be interested in the backstory of how this hobby of mine started, see my blog entry: Unretiring.