We bought Tailwind UI and it was very good and I learned a lot of nice tricks from it. Real shame, and I fear it is just the start of the impacts of AI on our industry.
Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
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#42Re: Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
#43How does something like Tailwind lead to a company big enough that you can layoff 75% of the engineering team?
Re: Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
#44Re: Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
#45How does something like Tailwind lead to a company big enough that you can layoff 75% of the engineering team?
Re: Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
#46I bought Tailwind UI - I always thought it was a critically bad business decision from their end to keep giving me additional new stuff for free. It seemed to me that it should have been a subscription.
However, knowing nothing about the inside of their business, I have no idea how that would have affected their viability.
Re: Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
#47How does something like Tailwind lead to a company big enough that you can layoff 75% of the engineering team?
In this comment, he says that he had to lay off 3 people.
Not sure if this means it was him+4engs and now it’s just him+1eng or if he’s including himself and he’s working alone now.
But either way, can’t be fun
Re: Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
#48The paid products Adam mentions are the pre-made components and templates, right? It seems like the bigger issue isn't reduced traffic but just that AI largely eliminates the need for such things. While I understand that this has been difficult for him and his company... hasn't it been obvious that this would be a major issue for years? I do worry about what this means for the future of open source software. We've lo…
EDIT: I suppose what I'm saying is that "The paid products Adam mentions are the pre-made components and templates, right? It seems like the bigger issue isn't reduced traffic but just that AI largely eliminates the need for such thing." is wrong. My hunch is that AI has the appearance of eliminating the need for such things.
Re: Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
#49How does something like Tailwind lead to a company big enough that you can layoff 75% of the engineering team?
Re: Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
#50The paid products Adam mentions are the pre-made components and templates, right? It seems like the bigger issue isn't reduced traffic but just that AI largely eliminates the need for such things. While I understand that this has been difficult for him and his company... hasn't it been obvious that this would be a major issue for years? I do worry about what this means for the future of open source software. We've lo…