Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify
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Big one today — Tailwind is joining Shopify.
When I started working on Tailwind over nine years ago, my only goal was to create something that would make it easier to build beautiful interfaces for my own projects. Fast-forward to today and the framework is installed over 110 million times per week and is trusted by many of the world's biggest companies to style products like ChatGPT, X, Cloudflare, Reddit, and Shopify.
We're joining Shopify to give Tailwind a stable long-term home where it will be actively maintained for the millions of people who depend on it.
We built a great little website template business around Tailwind over the years, but deep down I've always wanted the framework to be developed in service of a real product. A complex application solving important problems for real people, where we'd face the same challenges as our users, and could invent solutions that make the framework better for everyone.
Shopify provides an incredible surface area for us to do this work. Merchants need to be able to design and host beautiful custom storefronts, and manage sales and inventory in a powerful admin area. Their customers need delightful shopping and checkout experiences, and an intuitive way to keep track of their orders and discover new products through the Shop app. Shopify is also on the frontier of where user interfaces need to go next with their explorations into agentic commerce.
Shopify was also one of the very first companies operating at scale to see the potential in Tailwind CSS and start building with it , not only for themselves but betting on it for their customers too. Tailwind is a load-bearing very important part of the stack at Shopify, and they're invested in making sure it's actively maintained and continues to improve and adapt for how the ways we build are changing.