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Re: Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS

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Post by sodapopcan »

baggy_trough wrote: post #16
mdasen wrote: post #14

This is good, but it doesn't necessarily mean that Tailwind is out of the financial difficulty that we talked about yesterday. You can sponsor Tailwind for as little as $6,000/year. 29 companies were already sponsoring Tailwind including 16 companies at the $60,000/year level. Maybe Google AI Studio has decided to shell out a lot more, but it could also be a relatively small sponsorship compared to the $1.1M in spons…

I would think Tailwind could keep 3 engineers around if they are getting sponsorship of over $1m/yr.

Not necessarily. We don't know what all their costs are, but it's a lot more than just salaries. I'm sure there was a lot of uncertainty in how long those sponsorships would last. There are any number of factors. Adam also stated in a podcast [0] that he laid people of now in order to ensure they he could give them generous severance packages. I'm sure people will have thoughts on that but whatever, I think that makes sense.

[0] https://adams-morning-walk.transistor.fm/episodes/we-had-six...

Re: Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS

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Post by Arcuru »

mdasen wrote: post #14

This is good, but it doesn't necessarily mean that Tailwind is out of the financial difficulty that we talked about yesterday. You can sponsor Tailwind for as little as $6,000/year. 29 companies were already sponsoring Tailwind including 16 companies at the $60,000/year level. Maybe Google AI Studio has decided to shell out a lot more, but it could also be a relatively small sponsorship compared to the $1.1M in spons…

For others, the page where this info comes from is https://tailwindcss.com/sponsor

Re: Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS

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Post by Eridrus »

dust42 wrote: post #19
atonse wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google has poured untold millions into open source over the last couple of decades, not just by sponsorships, but also by employing contributors, etc. I don't think that'll change with AI. They just needed to be reminded about the financials of Tailwind and I'm sure it was an easy conversation internally.

> Google has poured untold millions into open source over the last couple of decades, not just by sponsorships, but also by employing contributors, etc. And Google has profited untold hundreds of billions of open source over the last couple of decades. They just need to be reminded of it. Edit: Haha, getting downvoted! Never underestimate the power of tens of thousands of Googlers on HN... Look, I use Gmail, Google m…

Google is actually kind of infamous for not using much in the way of OSS software.

The list of things I can think of is:

* Linux

* LLVM

* Webkit/Chrome (which they have done the majority of contributions to for a long time)

* Java & a little bit of Python

Re: Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS

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Post by manmal »

sodapopcan wrote: post #21
baggy_trough wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would think Tailwind could keep 3 engineers around if they are getting sponsorship of over $1m/yr.

Not necessarily. We don't know what all their costs are, but it's a lot more than just salaries. I'm sure there was a lot of uncertainty in how long those sponsorships would last. There are any number of factors. Adam also stated in a podcast [0] that he laid people of now in order to ensure they he could give them generous severance packages. I'm sure people will have thoughts on that but whatever, I think that make…

What costs could tailwind the OSS project have besides payroll and SaaS subs of max 20% the payroll?

Re: Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS

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Post by manmal »

Eridrus wrote: post #26
dust42 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Google has poured untold millions into open source over the last couple of decades, not just by sponsorships, but also by employing contributors, etc. And Google has profited untold hundreds of billions of open source over the last couple of decades. They just need to be reminded of it. Edit: Haha, getting downvoted! Never underestimate the power of tens of thousands of Googlers on HN... Look, I use Gmail, Google m…

Google is actually kind of infamous for not using much in the way of OSS software. The list of things I can think of is: * Linux * LLVM * Webkit/Chrome (which they have done the majority of contributions to for a long time) * Java & a little bit of Python

Oh, only Linux? /s

Re: Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS

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Post by jrjeksjd8d »

XCSme wrote: post #9
andy12_ wrote: post #3

This is probably related to this [1] if anyone is wondering. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46527950

Most likely, as Adam directly "credited" their revenue issues to AI (which makes sense, tailwind was making money by selling pre-made components, but now the AI can generate those for you).

The AI issue was that their docs advertise their paid offerings. When AI plagiarizes the docs it doesn't include the ads.
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