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Re:Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team by sosodev on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @11:51AM (#46528754)
It already exists. Tailwind has had GitHub sponsorships enabled for years but only 5 people have ever given them money that way.
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Re:Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team by satvikpendem on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @12:06PM (#46528990)
Meanwhile Evan You of Vue JS was making something like 200k just from Patreon before starting void(0) which is venture backed, it's all a marketing problem because I don't think anyone knew their GitHub sponsors even existed, people just don't seem to use it in general.

I don't know why Tailwind needed anyone more than Adam, I understand that more people makes the work go faster such as for their Rust compiler but then you run into money problems like this.

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Re:Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team by ceejayoz on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @12:10PM (#46529059)
They have off-GH sponsorship that's much more widely subscribed.

https://tailwindcss.com/sponsor

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Re:Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team by jonas21 on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @12:28PM (#46529335)
Yeah, it's apparently pulling in over $800K in annual revenue [1].

EDIT: Doing the math on the sponsor list, it's probably around $1M in ARR now.

[1] https://petersuhm.com/posts/2025/

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Re:Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team by eudamoniac on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @06:48PM (#46534985)
I'm sorry but it simply does not cost a million dollars to maintain Tailwind, a CSS library that has no compelling reason to ever change at this point.
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