OccupySaaS is protest movement written in code.
Story is simple. Many engineers got laid off in tech. But the SaaS platforms they built keep growing and keep charging per seat. So the same industry rent our own work back to us. This project is answer to that. Laid off engineers use AI and public documentation to rebuild those platforms as free open source drop-in replacements. One seat at a time.
Method is clean room. Public docs only, open standards, public SDK behaviour. No leaked code, no decompile, no confidential info from former employer. AI help with build, humans write spec and review every change. Compatible is proven by running vendors own public SDKs against the server. If your existing code dont work unchanged, it is not done.
Two early releases: ZeroAuthy ( Auth0 compatible identity server) and SalesCompel( Salesforce compatible CRM)
They are early, not production ready yet. But the goal is the point.
Yeah, as much as I’d like to applaud this sort of thing, ArtCraft, for example, is going to end up with some major legal woes, in addition to the fact that it’s a pile of slop that doesn’t work worth a damn. The only winner is Anthropic or OpenAI getting big money for all those wasted tokens.
*Whisper: self hosted LLMs
Dario: We gotta pace the frontier 😆
But in all seriousness, they’re still unmaintaible slop. But who knows maybe in X years they get better. I see a better use case in software
crackinglibre sourcingI wouldn’t be so sure about the legal actions. There has been some discussions about the room for action of Adobe and that did not seem very big. And the projects will never disappear.
I definitely agree that, at least for the moment, the only winners are token sellers. Those application are definitely not feature complete nor do they claim that at present time.