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 have been wondering what the future holds for soo many saas products. A lot of them handle really simple things with a very complex interface. I see UI’s being less important in the age of AI. Apis will be king. Your AI will act as your UI and interface with product apis. But a lot of these SAAS tools have really weak apis. And even weaker RBAC that can support constraining what an AI can do. So I feel like they will lose out to new tools that are built to be interacted with via AI first, with the UI being more just a visualization tool.
Absolute nightmare world where AI is the primary UX. My absolute least favorite part of AI is the natural language interface. Unintuitive as hell.