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.
The reason companies use these providers is their support and SLAs. Do you think anyone wants to host salesforce?
I don’t see this gaining much traction, but as a self-hoster I still like this because I can maybe run some of them for personal use.
There’s your business opportunity punching you straight in your face!
This very much depends on the product, the stability and the pricing. If you already have a bunch of infrastructure and engineers, while your provider starts having the stability of GitHub, this option allows customizing for your businesscase without paying through the nose for it while never owning a thing and fixing bugs yourself, without having to rely on a third party. And if the businesses they show in their video are a hint of what they are aiming for, then there are selfhostable variants of AWS and Azure with feature parity on the roadmap.
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.
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
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