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They don't only make TailwindCSS. They also make a large collection of components and templates at https://tailwindcss.com/plus https://tailwindcss.com/plus
by troupo 10mo ago
They don't only make TailwindCSS. They also make a large collection of components and templates at https://tailwindcss.com/plus https://tailwindcss.com/plus
- robertjpayne 10mo agoYes but Tailwind Plus has a flawed business model, AI was not really the reason nobody bought it, it's that it's a lifetime purchase and that shadcn + LLMs has eaten their cake left right and central. If LLMs didn't exist but shadcn still did, do you think people would pay and use Tailwind+ or shadcn?
- d1sxeyes 10mo agoWhat’s the problem with the lifetime purchase?
- corobo 10mo agoIt takes the recurring out of recurring revenue, 100% churn
- hennell 10mo agoIt's the difference between one-off revenue and recurring revenue. If you're making new components, making new changes for the new version, adding new css and browser support it's hard to keep going with only income from new customers.
- omnimus 10mo agoTailwind UI is tool companies buy to save dev time mostly on internal/back office tools. It's usually bought per project. The math is pretty easy - if it saves you few hours of devtime you buy TailwindUI. Shadcn and bazillion other similar things are certainly competition but TailwindUI is very broad and of high quality so why not pick the nicest version. The problem is that Tailwind is extremely portable (thats why it's so popular) and since LLMs have been fed all TailwindUI code... people using LLMs don't even have to know that TailwindUI exists they just get some Tailwind styled components. They would probably look pretty confused if you told them you used to buy these templates.