I saw some discussion about this elsewhere. Here is how the project describes itself:
OccupySaaS is a protest movement in code: laid-off developers building clean-room, open-source, drop-in replacements for the SaaS giants. First up: ZeroAuthy (Auth0) and SalesCompel (Salesforce).
In 2011, Occupy Wall Street asked who the economy was really working for. In 2026 we’re asking the same question about the cloud. The tools every company runs on are now toll booths — and the people who built them were shown the door.
Two towers occupied.
Identity and CRM: the two subscriptions almost every company pays for and almost nobody loves. ZeroAuthy has shipped its first release candidate, SalesCompel is still early, and both welcome contributors today.
Who’s next?
Every category on this board is a monthly invoice somewhere. The movement picks the next target in public — bring a spec, a use case, or a grudge.
I worry that every level has this misunderstanding, that “Salesforce” is a monolithic system that can be remade if only we pass a comprehensive test suite. Salesforce does not have 80k+ developers making a singular monolithic product. They have 80k+ employees servicing the sales demands of a massive number of customers. Excel is a perfectly fine CRM if you only have a handful of customers.
Hope you’re staying sane in the SaaS landscape. I hear a lot of horror stories.
Yeah absolutely, a ton of their software is bespoke maintained versions specific to one customer and the weird business processes they have. Appreciate the note on the SaaS landscape as well, thankfully I’ve fared much better than some of my friends/coworkers from previous companies who have been caught up in the swathes of layoffs, and I am proud of our team/org for having zero layoffs since the ai bubble started.