Ever feel like creating and nurturing an opensource project? Some of those responses make me second guess doing anything with opensource.

This is the actual comment that it's mentioned: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388#is...

However, the whole conversation is worth reading (but it's sort of heartbreaking).

Sounds like fairly decent folks, all around.

My takeaway from this: If LLM can eat your lunch, you should remove your cash cow from crawler avenues and gatekeep it to humans only

Specific link to actual comment: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388#is...

I think that the OP should update link to this comment

I bought Tailwind UI, now Plus a couple of years ago. I've also dabbled with a Claude skill that scrapes a "UI block" source from the site and transforms it into a Rails view component. Maybe there's a way to make Plus and LLMs work together rather than compete?

Refactoring UI is a great book that i've had a ton of value from. Tailwind plus also, and i've been so surprised/impressed to see that my one time purchase kept granting me new stuff. Thanks a lot to Adam and the Tailwind team.

This has been a long time coming I think. I remember listening to an interview with the creator maybe over a year ago now and him saying revenue is way down, presumably because of AI

I do wonder though if the llms.txt could actually be used for their benefit? Why not literally recommend the paid upgrades within it?

Just charge a bucks for every deployment or something. Most of will easily pay a dollar.

Tailwind should not be free, its good.

I would also say that the tailwind ui library is facing stiff competition from free offerings like shadcn.

They have the UI Blocks, Templates and UI Kit in https://tailwindcss.com/plus. I think they are in a good position to build an AI website builder similar to lovable.dev if they wanted to.