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Adam Wathan假期期间进行了详细的收入预测,发现公司的收入在持续缓慢下降。如果不做出改变,6个月后公司将无法支付薪资。

周一他们裁掉了75%的工程团队(3人),剩余团队包括三位创始人(Adam、Steve、Jonathan)、一位工程师(Robin)和一位运营支持人员(Peter)。

AI让Tailwind更受欢迎,但减少了文档网站流量(这是Tailwind推广付费产品的唯一渠道),导致收入下降。

没想到,我也经常用Tailwind CSS,但即使Tailwind CSS是目前非常流行的开源项目,当前的商业模式也无法支撑8人的团队。可惜。

https://adams-morning-walk.transistor.fm/episodes/we-had-six-months-left

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I totally see the value in the feature and I would like to find a way to add it.

But the reality is that 75% of the people on our engineering team lost their jobs here yesterday because of the brutal impact Al has had on our business. And every second I spend trying to do fun free things for the community like this is a second I'm not spending trying to turn the business around and make sure the people who are still here are getting their paychecks every month.

Traffic to our docs is down about 40% from early 2023 despite Tailwind being more popular than ever. The docs are the only way people find out about our commercial products, and without customers we can't afford to maintain the framework. I really want to figure out a way to offer LLM-optimized docs that don't make that situation even worse (again we literally had to lay off 75% of the team yesterday), but I can't prioritize it right now unfortunately, and I'm nervous to offer them without solving that problem first. A

@PaulRBerg I don't see the AGENTS.md stuff we offer as part of the sponsorship program as anything similar to this at all- that's just a short markdown file with a bunch of my own personal opinions and what I consider best practices to nudge LLMS into writing their Tailwind stuff in a specific way. It's not the docs at all, and I resent the accusation that I am not disclosing my "true intentions" here or something.

This feature is so that people can build MORE things with Tailwind in a FASTER and more EFFICIENT capacity.


@mtsears4 Tailwind is growing faster than it ever has and is bigger than it ever has been, and our revenue is down close to 80%. Right now there's just no correlation between making Tailwind easier to use and making development of the framework more sustainable. I need to fix that before making Tailwind easier to use benefits anyone, because if I can't fix that this project is going to become unmaintained abandonware when there is no one left employed to work on it. I appreciate the sentiment and agree in spirit, it's just more complicated than that in reality right now.

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