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OccupySaaS — They laid us off. We're rebuilding their SaaS. (occupysaas.com)

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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.

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[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Same.

Any good programmer is only spending 10-20% of their time actually writing code. Replacing that with LLMs isn't making you significantly faster, especially if you're spending more time per line reviewing what it puts out while also atrophying your skills in programming

[-] elixir_fan@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago

Agreed. Plus most people pay companies for the support and trust they have, rather than for the simple functionality of a component or product. There's always been cheaper and even free alternatives to lots of established products, but companies understand there's value in having support when things go badly, and in having a different set of eyes handling that component instead of having to dedicate your own workers in house. So even from a business proposition cloning these apps doesn't do shit. We need either more work in existing foss projects (if they're designed well enough) or make new ones with extreme care if we ever want to make good replacements for proprietary stuff.

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