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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.
Honestly, what kind of support are they getting for salesforce? Something like a PoS I can understand maybe, or a booking solution. Most of it can be self hosted, the company doesn’t bring much to the table.
For many companies that are not tech-heavy in their day-to-day (small businesses, small offices, retail, etc), SAAS products like Salesforce, while expensive, are still way cheaper than hiring an in-house IT person or contracting with an IT maintenance provider.
Implementation and customization is a big part of things like Salesforce. Having a group of people who know how to setup these things up properly and quickly, who knows the common pitfalls, can often be cheaper than hiring a bunch of random people to set up something in house
It’s not so much they bring in quality support, more that it let’s them have cover when there are issues.
everything is on fire, vendor is on it is better optics