Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team

Re:Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team by jesse_dot_id on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @01:06PM (#46530017)

I bought a Tailwind Plus trial a few years ago and I've been using AI tools since they came out. I typically find the block or template I want to use via the Tailwind Plus site and then feed it into Claude Code and ask the agent to modify them as required. This has been working well for me. I think the problem is that the Internet is absolutely full of people who expect free shit and never even consider paying for it to support the devs. I don't really know how you fix that. In a sane world, we'd be funding the most popular/useful projects using government grants, since our entire fucking economy sits atop a pile of OSS.

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Re:Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team by YaeGh8Vo on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @03:02PM (#46531747)

Ironically, some of the same people that are ready to pay $200.-/month Claude subscriptions.

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Re:Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team by jesse_dot_id on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @05:11PM (#46533827)

You're not wrong.

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Re:Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team by nyantaro1 on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @09:52PM (#46536597)

I don't know why I didn't think about this before, but you are right. This is just wrong.

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Re:Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team by jandy on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @08:25PM (#46535856)

I think you can see this when you look at the downvotes on that GitHub issue on any comment which suggests gating AI access behind a paywall.

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Re:Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team by jesse_dot_id on Thursday January 08, 2026 @04:06AM (#46538929)

Bought a license, not a trial. Freudian slip.

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