tailwindcss.com

Here's some context on the impact AI had on the Tailwind Labs business model from January: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388#is... > But the reality is that 75% of the people on our engineering team lost their jobs here yesterday because of the brutal impact AI has had on our business. [...] > Traffic to our docs is down about 40% from early 2023 despite Tailwind being more popular than ever. The docs are the only way people find out about our commercial products, and without customers we can't afford to maintain the framework.

https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388#is... Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46527950

Valid point. I shouldn’t have met condescension with condescension. I don’t think I would have said anything if the opening statement wasn’t a “you do you, but” Thanks for taking the time to call me out politely. To be objective, we can ask the creator of tailwind how much honor he feels with his business just being weights in a model in someone else’s business https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388#is... https://www.businessinsider.com/tailwind-engineer-layoffs-ai... https://dev.to/kniraj/tailwind-css-lays-off-75-of-engineerin... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46527950 Going full hypertext computer history, this is why Ted Nelson believed in micro transactions on transclusions. In modern terms— when ai bills by the tokens, those tokens should also get paid out to the source materials. The business model is primar

https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/commits/main... They've just added 26 sponsor companies in the last two days, 7 of them partners!

If the description for each tier is correct then it seems like Google AI Studio is an Ambassador only ($2,500 per month). This tier includes your company logo on the homepage. The Partner tier ($5,000 per month) includes placing your logo at the top of the sponsor list and Google AI Studio is at the end of the sponsor list. Edit Looking at the tailwind.css repo[1] they are a Partner. Not sure why they are at the end of the sponsor list in that case. Though now I look at the bottom of the sponsors page I see they repeat the Sponsors again at the bottom and directly indicate each companies support tier. 1. https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/commit/7a98b...

Here's the comment in question on GitHub: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388#is...

I never personally wanted Tailwind as a product, but really feel for them when I see comments like this one [1]: > Here's a friendly tip for the Tailwind team that you should already know, but I will repeat anyways: If your goal is monetizing your software, then making your software as easy to use for people's workflows, is paramount. I made the horrible life mistake of starting a company around developer tools, and I would never, ever repeat the experience because of “friendly” stuff like this. I don’t know why software developers are so entitled, but it’s a serious culture problem. [1] https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388#is...

Specific link to actual comment: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388#is... I think that the OP should update link to this comment

This is the actual comment that it's mentioned: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388#is... However, the whole conversation is worth reading (but it's sort of heartbreaking). Sounds like fairly decent folks, all around.

Referring to TFA (couple of comments on the issue). https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388#is... https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388#is...

if you actually read the thread: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388#is...

Key comment is this one: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388#is... > [...] the reality is that 75% of the people on our engineering team lost their jobs here yesterday because of the brutal impact AI has had on our business. And every second I spend trying to do fun free things for the community like this is a second I'm not spending trying to turn the business around and make sure the people who are still here are getting their paychecks every month. [...] > Traffic to our docs is down about 40% from early 2023 despite Tailwind being more popular than ever. The docs are the only way people find out about our commercial products, and without customers we can't afford to maintain the framework.