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.

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[–] 9 points 21 hours ago

The idea has some merit, however- one of the first rules of authentication is to not do it yourself, and rely on trusted libraries (or platforms, in the case of Auth0).

Why would any company choose a no-name AI-genned rando software as their auth stack that doesn't offer any guarantees, or compensation in case of a breach, when you could instead... not do that and have a proper functioning tool with adequate support?

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