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> Adam built a massive following by giving devs what they wanted for free while contracting. This ranged from sharing countless useful tips on Twitter to bloggi
by dominotw 7y ago
> Adam built a massive following by giving devs what they wanted for free while contracting. This ranged from sharing countless useful tips on Twitter to blogging and then later podcasting.
Just a counterpoint. I had never heard of tailwind before it front page of HN couple of weeks ago. I bought it because it looked pretty and I need to revamp one of my sites. And yea price point was super attractive to me.
- chii 7y ago> And yea price point was super attractive to me. it's quite cheap for this large amount of polish. $300 bucks is less than a day's wage for a good engineer, but a good engineer would need to spend at least a week to polish bespoke stuff to this level. So therefore, it's worth the price tag.
- wyaeld 7y agoPlenty of us 'good engineers' aren't anywhere near that proficient in frontend either. I can build great backend systems, that's where my interest lies. I can't do CSS like this even with months.