OccupySaaS(occupysaas.com)
366 points by misswaterfairy 13 hours ago | 221 comments
tl;dr: OccupySaaS is a protest movement/project framing laid-off engineers building clean-room, open-source, drop-in replacements for popular SaaS platforms, using AI to implement from public API docs behind a strict firewall. Its first two Apache-2.0 releases are ZeroAuthy (Auth0-compatible identity server) and SalesCompel (Salesforce-compatible CRM), both written in Go and verified against the vendors' own public SDKs. Both are explicitly early-stage, with proposed future targets including docs/wikis, issue tracking, feature flags, observability, and support tools.
HN Discussion:
  • ↓The 'movement' framing is misleading since it's just one guy and Claude, not a collective
  • ↓This reinvents FOSS which already exists; many open-source alternatives are available
  • ↓Replicating the software misses the point since customers pay for service/support, not the code
  • ~Apache-2.0 is too permissive; a strong copyleft license is needed to prevent co-option
  • ↓The anti-SaaS framing unfairly targets bootstrapped solo founders trying to earn a living