Premium library of professionally designed Tailwind components, templates and UI kits.
~$2M in first 5 months
Tailwind CSS by Adam Wathan
Utility-first CSS framework for building custom designs directly in your markup, installed 110M+ times per week.
Exit story: How Adam Wathan & Steve Schoger Sold Tailwind CSS to Shopify (2026) →
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Utility-first CSS framework for building custom designs directly in your markup, installed 110M+ times per week. Tailwind CSS is a open source makers product built by indie maker Adam Wathan, launched in 2017. Tailwind CSS has since been acquired.
- Status
- Acquired
- Launched
- 2017
- Category
- Open Source Makers
- Website
- tailwindcss.com
More products by Adam Wathan
Refactoring UI
refactoringui.com
Design book and video course for developers, co-written with Steve Schoger.
~$600K in 2020
Headless UI
headlessui.com
Unstyled, fully accessible UI components designed to pair with Tailwind CSS.
Heroicons
heroicons.com
Free, MIT-licensed SVG icon set made by the Tailwind Labs team.
Collection of task-oriented prompts and workflows for building good-looking UIs with AI.
T
Test-Driven Laravel
testdrivenlaravel.com
Video course on building a real Laravel application test-first.
Tailwind CSS FAQ
What is Tailwind CSS?
Tailwind CSS is a open source makers product: Utility-first CSS framework for building custom designs directly in your markup, installed 110M+ times per week.
Who made Tailwind CSS?
Tailwind CSS was made by Adam Wathan, Creator of Tailwind CSS who built a multi-million-dollar business on open source. It launched in 2017. Adam Wathan has also built Tailwind Plus (formerly Tailwind UI), Refactoring UI, Headless UI, Heroicons.
Is Tailwind CSS still active?
Tailwind CSS has been acquired. It is no longer owned by Adam Wathan, who built it as an indie maker.
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