I remember that HN discussion, but it seemed to me from the outside that after that post they got Google as a sponsor and I just had assumed the community was rallying together for them a bit.

But I guess not.

Too bad, they seem like such good people. Not that they're dead or something but I don't think this was their ideal end state for Tailwind.

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f311a 3 hours ago | parent [-]

They got like 10 new sponsors, you can see it on their page. They are one of the top OSS projects in terms of revenue.

I can't recall any other OSS project that makes so much money and has nothing to do with infra/cloud.

They were making around $1M a year back when they complained about the revenue. A lot of Linux distros can only dream about such an amount of money.

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simonw 3 hours ago | parent [-]

$1M a year isn't a lot of money if you are paying for full-time employees.

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dlisboa 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They achieved $2 million revenue in the first 5 months of the first Tailwind UI release.[1]

They had a very good run for such a project.

[1] - https://adamwathan.me/tailwindcss-from-side-project-byproduc...

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tempfile 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Right, and as a consequence lots of very important software (orders of magnitude more important than tailwind) does not have full-time employees. Good for them if they can manage it, but it's a gravy train.

	▲	simonw 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Given how hard it is to build any form of financially sustainable model around an open source project I think we should actively celebrate anyone who manages to build a model that works, not dismiss it as a "gravy train".