Before Adam posted his podcast episode, Tailwind had:
- 13 Partners à $5000
- 3 Ambassadors à $2500
- 5 supporters à $500
=> $75k MRR
Now:
- 22 Partners à $5000
- 4 Ambassadors à $2500
- 22 supporters à $500
=> $131k MRR
That's +$56k MRR with a tweet, not counting the Tailwind+ sub boosts, free PR, and all the long-term ripple effects for the business that are yet to come.
The community is now sensitized to the cause and are much more likely to convert into a subscription in the future that they would have before this, just because Adam sounded like a human and not a faceless corporation.
When you build something people love with a great attention to craft and manage to tell a compelling story, people show up for you.
That’s something a data driven founder, busy optimizing funnels and nudging button colors, will never quite reach. Because trust isn’t a metric, goodwill doesn’t fit in a dashboard, and people don’t rally behind experiments. They rally behind work that feels intentional, human, and worth supporting.
Overwhelmed by the support over the last 24 hours, not something I was looking for and expecting when I recorded that podcast on a whim. Thanks so much to everyone with words of encouragement, the new sponsors we've brought on, and people who've used their platforms to help in any way, I'm extremely touched ❤️
I feel like I have to make it clear though that we've still got a fine business (even if things are trending down), just not a great one anymore. Had to make a really crushing change and did everything I could to do it in the most generous and gracious way possible, but at the new size we're okay. We're comfortable, and things like our partner program are helping a lot to fund the framework more directly instead of selling products that are more at risk of disruption. We don't need anyone to rescue us, we've got lots of time and space to try new ideas and see what works 🙏🏻
I'm optimistic we'll figure out how to get things moving in the right direction, but even if we just have be a smaller business with less budget than we've had in the past that's okay too ❤️
Vercel will be officially sponsoring https://t.co/QF7eOed81b. That's a given. We as a community and industry owe @adamwathan and team a lot. Tailwind is foundational web infrastructure at this point (it fixed CSS 😉). I've also reached out to Adam to explore how we can make this a longer-term commitment.
Thanks to Tech4Dev for giving us Developers Foundry Fellowship.
Thanks to Mr Ossai Precious(https://t.co/0fcEzJz5U1), Mr Nnamdi Azubuike and Mr David Joseph Nwosu (@David_N_Joseph), and the whole of Tech4Devs team, for making this program awesome.
A few things I've noticed as all devs write code with AI.
When you write foundational / architectural code of a new project by hand, you "feel" the code pushing back if your abstraction isn't right. You feel when something is harder than it should be. The code is telling you it's not in the right shape. Good engineers are sensitive to this.
When you're using an LLM, you keep pushing right through this in a way that feels like you're making progress, and it may even be directionally correct in a sense, but the underlying foundation of it all is actually bad in a way that either kills progress of the LLM later as it buckles under the complexity it has created or destroys your ability to maintain the code long term.
Related to this, I see a general restlessness with just sitting and thinking about a problem for a while.
As I've been working on a new library here at Laravel, there have been days where it feels like I mainly just stare at my screen thinking about something. When Claude Code is at your fingertips, it's tempting to just start yapping into the terminal and watching code come out the other end. Again, directionally correct in some ways, but often doesn't land on the elegant solution that is waiting to be discovered.
@PluggedDaily_@SrBez_ He was telling the truth. He was actually a good guy that came to help. The bad guy that kills her was already inside like the man warned.