←back to thread

Vanilla JavaScript support for Tailwind Plus

(tailwindcss.com)
304 points ulrischa | 2 comments | 25 Jul 25 18:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
Show context
abtinf ◴[25 Jul 25 19:20 UTC] No.44687235[source]▶
The world would be a significantly better place if someone could throw a small mountain of money at the Tailwind folks so that they can stop worrying about money and simply make the full tailwind experience freely available. There are so many lost opportunities for deep integration with other projects.

Kind of like how Jeff Bezos threw a bunch of money at 37signals at some insane valuation, which helped them completely avoid the VC trap.

replies(7): >>44687365 #>>44687377 #>>44687560 #>>44687753 #>>44688486 #>>44689007 #>>44693173 #
subarctic ◴[25 Jul 25 22:00 UTC] No.44689007[source]▶
Fwiw I feel like their components are something I'd be less likely to want to pay for now that you can generate tailwind components so easily with ai. I guess now that I think of it I actually paid for them back when it was called Tailwind UI, but instead of using them I'm just telling claude to generate a UI for me, which has the advantage that there's no licensing issues. It'll be interesting to see how their business does going forward
replies(1): >>44689480 #
1. nikkwong ◴[25 Jul 25 22:56 UTC] No.44689480[source]▶
How has shipping high quality products using AI generated tailwind components actually been working for you? I think the problem that I and many others have/had, is that it can certainly build a few components that look good in isolation, but it doesn’t do a good job at maintaining a cohesive theme/idea across many different page sections/components etc. I built blendful [0] to solve this, and sort of lost interest when LLMs became increasingly capable. However, seeing them not making any gains, really, on visual cohesion between sections and components provoked enough excitement to continue working on it this year.

We will see how long it takes for LLMs to make headway in this area specifically.

[0]: https://www.blendful.com

replies(1): >>44691831 #
2. subarctic ◴[26 Jul 25 06:18 UTC] No.44691831[source]▶
I'm not there yet, but I wouldn't say I've ever shipped anything with a high quality cohesive frontend. In general though, don't people usually ditch these component libraries and write their own set of components once they reach a certain point?