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Posted by misswaterfairy 1 day ago

OccupySaaS(occupysaas.com)
253 points | 155 commentspage 2
timsuchanek 1 day ago|
Where is "OccupyResponsibility"? The point of SaaS is not anymore the software, but a team of humans still being responsible when something goes wrong.
throwayay58373 22 hours ago|
Remember when someone described dropbox as a wrapper around rsync?

This has a very similar vibe.

doginasuit 1 day ago||
This seems inevitable in one form or another. A lot of talented devs are struggling to find employment at the same moment that there is a tool that can guide you through the parts of launching a product that are outside of your expertise. That's just more time to tinker out of curiosity or necessity.

I believe the next few years are going to see a lot of new and innovative tech products. Maybe this is how we build the internet we actually want.

everfrustrated 1 day ago||
Apache 2.0... so someone can take your code and turn it into saas again!
jenadine 1 day ago|
If they had chosen something like AGPL, they would have had comments saying noone is going to use it.

Can't make everyone happy.

Mike_weinberg 1 day ago||
This entire website screams “Authored by AI”. It is ironic and lazy that the manifesto of a movement nominally for humans would be written by AI.

Does anyone else feel that this discredits it?

kmoser 1 day ago||
No, the FAQ describes why they use AI to write the software. It's just a logical extension that they would also use it to build the website.
grahamnorton39 1 day ago|||
Sure, use LLMs to build the website, but put your own words on there! To me it just screams laziness; LLM prose is much worse at getting its point across than normal human writing, and is somewhat painful to read. If you can’t be bothered to spend a little while putting your thoughts to paper (or into a text file to give to $AGENT), what’s the point of doing this at all? Do people have this idea that LLMs produce better prose?
lemagedurage 22 hours ago|||
It's true but it doesn't "vibe" well with the "power to the people" messaging. I think what I'd want to see is someone putting their heart into this before I'd even consider joining the cause. The low effort text makes me not have faith.
vconnor 1 day ago||
Everything is made with LLMs today. Even sites that claim to be anti-LLM. I guess vibe coders are immune to hypocrisy.
74948494i4 1 day ago||
I wish them success but doubt it will work for the simple fact that you need some semblance of reliable support which generally requires ownership. That is at odds with the spirit of this, at least from first page.

Or to put it another way, if money isn’t an issue why would you use Salescompel over Salesforce?

Running a business isn’t just about software.

ragequittah 1 day ago||
The more that the 'reliable support' becomes AI agents that make it harder and harder to get to an actual person, the more projects like this that can make good documentation that acts as support (if you point your own AI at it) make perfect sense.

Lots of smaller/medium sized companies where money is definitely an issue are also tethered to way too many SaaS subscriptions.

asdfsa32 1 day ago||
But AI!

I think what AI has surfaced is that how bad most people, even people from tech are in understand what makes SaaS work and what makes software good. It is rarely just churning code.

00deadbeef 1 day ago||
I don't get the concept. A small business can pay Salesforce $25 per month per seat, or they can hire somebody technical - at more expense - to take total responsibility for a self-hosted instance by installing it, securing it, backing it up, updating it, and dealing with downtime when the vibecoded mess inevitably has an update that breaks it...

...why?

xiaoape 1 day ago||
Don't think the incentive is right. Who is going to do free protest forever? Real replacement takes time, take sales...
Terr_ 1 day ago|
An interesting idea, but if it's like Occupy Wall-street, the tricky part will be getting (and keeping) everyone on the same page.
cedws 1 day ago||
It will be hard to keep everyone on the same page because if this gains any traction social media will ratchet up the propaganda and play the divide and conquer strategy. There'll be accusations of people joining movements like this of being communists and that will kick it off. Same strategy being used across the board.
denkmoon 1 day ago||
Dear god, the commies are in our software!!! Imagine if those types had a clue just how much digital infrastructure ran on code written by "communists"
cedws 1 day ago||
Ironically your comment demonstrates exactly what I just said. Political polarisation plays into the hands of the elite, you're just helping to fuel it with this kind of tone.
denkmoon 1 day ago||
I do not feel remotely bad about mocking anyone who is stuck in a red scare, and I am unconvinced this post moves the needle in any measurable way.
deaux 1 day ago||
Yes, due to government infiltration and crackdowns, like with OWS.
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