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It already exists. Tailwind has had GitHub sponsorships enabled for years but only 5 people have ever given them money that way.

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Meanwhile Evan You of Vue JS was making something like 200k just from Patreon before starting void(0) which is venture backed, it's all a marketing problem because I don't think anyone knew their GitHub sponsors even existed, people just don't seem to use it in general.

I don't know why Tailwind needed anyone more than Adam, I understand that more people makes the work go faster such as for their Rust compiler but then you run into money problems like this.

They have off-GH sponsorship that's much more widely subscribed.

https://tailwindcss.com/sponsor

Yeah, it's apparently pulling in over $800K in annual revenue [1].

EDIT: Doing the math on the sponsor list, it's probably around $1M in ARR now.

[1] https://petersuhm.com/posts/2025/

I'm sorry but it simply does not cost a million dollars to maintain Tailwind, a CSS library that has no compelling reason to ever change at this point.

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