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It's just too ironic and such a shame that LLMs have railroaded the business model of Tailwind when LLMs have made it so much more popular.

Does anyone have any backseat driver ideas for how tailwind could make enough money to hire a team to work on the framework?

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I was going to say before LLMs Tailwind UI helped me get moving much faster on front-end code. Now I wish there was some kind of context I can provide to use the Tailwind UI instead of hallucinating its own. Tailwind UI still looks better than the generic stuff LLMs generate.

(Open to any suggestions to feed existing ui components from Tailwind into my projects/llm).

Do you mean headlessui? If so it seems to be indexed by context7 [1] so you could use it with their MCP server?

[1] - https://context7.com/tailwindlabs/headlessui

Does asking for tailwind directly in the prompt not get it looking in that direction? I wonder if you could get a large enough context to include the css directly too

I was more hoping to use the Tailwind UI components (or tailwind plus or whatever they're calling it now) with the LLM output. I don't think they offer downloadable components or whatever so the LLM would need a way of knowing which were available to use and be able to pull them in for reference. At least that's my assumption.

There might be a business model for Tailwind here. I was looking at buying Tailwind Plus after reading this news, and my first question was how to get AI to use it efficiently.

Make Tailwind Plus an annual subscription, not a one-time purchase.

Corporate sponsorships.

In-person training focused on big corps.

Acquisition.

Just to build on this, Vercel would be an obvious acquisition candidate. It feels up their alley and they make heavy use of Tailwind.

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