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Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team (github.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 8 points 10 months ago (5 children)

300 bucks for one "license"? I'm starting to understand the "get fucked" comment guy.

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago

    It's not particularly bad value for what they're offering, which seems to be a component library and set of templates.

    For a comparison, the company I work for are paying over a £1000 / year for MUI-X, which is a set of paid React components. It's cheaper and more efficient than paying someone at our company to maintain our own component library.

    Even a single engineer spending 10% of their time (as I used to) maintaining this stuff would cost the company over £5000 / year in manpower.

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    That’s for lifetime. Or you could pay five bucks a month for it. It’s been quite impressive, as a person who just uses the service. Tried it on the free tier liked it enough to start ponying up.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    Lifetime of the product, not the user. It’s a scam.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    All subscriptions are for the lifetime of the product, aren’t they? It’s like Plex Pass; pay monthly/yearly or buy the lifetime and hope they don’t bankrupt out. But if you like a product like that, there’s only a few options, and it seems like they’re trying to stay afloat and still make a relatively open product.

    And there’s always the free tier for personal use, which seems to have been glossed over. (was thinking of a different product with tail in its name

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