<story><title>Tailwind UI has made over $500k in sales in its first three days</title><url>https://twitter.com/adamwathan/status/1233517884619546631</url><text>Adam&amp;#x27;s tweet -&amp;gt; https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;adamwathan&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1233517884619546631&lt;p&gt;Tailwind UI is a library of responsive HTML components, built using Adam&amp;#x27;s framework Tailwind CSS. It&amp;#x27;s only been selling in early access for three days!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>AlchemistCamp</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s worth noting a bit about how he was so successful. I don&amp;#x27;t believe it was the pricing. He&amp;#x27;s selling two modules at $149 each or a bundle with both for $249, which is fairly typical.&lt;p&gt;I wouldn&amp;#x27;t be surprised if somebody with a user name ending in eleven showed up saying &amp;quot;charge more&amp;quot;, but I believe that rallying cry has already pretty thoroughly saturated HN and the bootstrapper world in general.&lt;p&gt;So much so, that most of us are blind to what actually does differentiate Adam and leads to his success.&lt;p&gt;A more under-valued takeaway than &amp;quot;charge more&amp;quot; would be &amp;quot;the power of free&amp;quot;. Adam built a &lt;i&gt;massive&lt;/i&gt; following by giving devs what they wanted for free while contracting. This ranged from sharing countless useful tips on Twitter to blogging and then later podcasting.&lt;p&gt;During his &lt;i&gt;excellent&lt;/i&gt; interview with csallen on IH[1], he described this practice of helping people for free as a &amp;quot;spring&amp;quot; that he was pushing down on. When he finally sold something, that stored commercial energy was released!&lt;p&gt;Each cycle he&amp;#x27;s pressed the spring down harder and longer.&lt;p&gt;His earlier courses came together relatively quickly. His design book was started on the back of a longer free campaign of tidbits on his blog and twitter. This time, he started by building Tailwind CSS into a top-notch open source library with extraordinary growth for multiple years before he monetized it with Tailwind UI.&lt;p&gt;1) It was csallen&amp;#x27;s helpful post on IH that sparked me into disagreement to write this one! See: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.indiehackers.com&amp;#x2F;post&amp;#x2F;adam-wathan-just-made-500k-in-3-days-from-his-new-product-603feefe61&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.indiehackers.com&amp;#x2F;post&amp;#x2F;adam-wathan-just-made-500k...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&amp;gt; A more under-valued takeaway than &amp;quot;charge more&amp;quot; would be &amp;quot;the power of free&amp;quot;. Adam built a massive following by giving devs what they wanted for free while contracting. This ranged from sharing countless useful tips on Twitter to blogging and then later podcasting.&lt;p&gt;Agreed. $500K in 3 days sounds like a sudden windfall, but Adam has spent a long time and a lot of effort building a quality product and a quality following.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I wouldn&amp;#x27;t be surprised if somebody with a user name ending in eleven showed up saying &amp;quot;charge more&amp;quot;, but I believe that rallying cry has already pretty thoroughly saturated HN and the bootstrapper world in general.&lt;p&gt;These &amp;quot;charge more&amp;quot; success stories are a prime example of survivorship bias. We never hear about the bootstrappers or freelancers who charged too much for too little and lost their clients. Furthermore, it undermines from the amount of effort that successful bootstrappers invested before they reach success. Frankly, it feels like the &amp;quot;charge more&amp;quot; crowd is trying to downplay the effort of founders and replace it with their own &amp;quot;one cool trick&amp;quot; bit of guru wisdom.&lt;p&gt;Locally, I&amp;#x27;ve seen a lot of beginner freelancers and bootstrappers put the cart before the horse with &amp;quot;charge more&amp;quot; before they have a quality product&amp;#x2F;service.&lt;p&gt;Charging premium prices for premium products makes sense. Charging premium prices for mediocre work will build the wrong type of reputation very quickly.</text></comment>
<story><title>Tailwind UI has made over $500k in sales in its first three days</title><url>https://twitter.com/adamwathan/status/1233517884619546631</url><text>Adam&amp;#x27;s tweet -&amp;gt; https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;adamwathan&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1233517884619546631&lt;p&gt;Tailwind UI is a library of responsive HTML components, built using Adam&amp;#x27;s framework Tailwind CSS. It&amp;#x27;s only been selling in early access for three days!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>AlchemistCamp</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s worth noting a bit about how he was so successful. I don&amp;#x27;t believe it was the pricing. He&amp;#x27;s selling two modules at $149 each or a bundle with both for $249, which is fairly typical.&lt;p&gt;I wouldn&amp;#x27;t be surprised if somebody with a user name ending in eleven showed up saying &amp;quot;charge more&amp;quot;, but I believe that rallying cry has already pretty thoroughly saturated HN and the bootstrapper world in general.&lt;p&gt;So much so, that most of us are blind to what actually does differentiate Adam and leads to his success.&lt;p&gt;A more under-valued takeaway than &amp;quot;charge more&amp;quot; would be &amp;quot;the power of free&amp;quot;. Adam built a &lt;i&gt;massive&lt;/i&gt; following by giving devs what they wanted for free while contracting. This ranged from sharing countless useful tips on Twitter to blogging and then later podcasting.&lt;p&gt;During his &lt;i&gt;excellent&lt;/i&gt; interview with csallen on IH[1], he described this practice of helping people for free as a &amp;quot;spring&amp;quot; that he was pushing down on. When he finally sold something, that stored commercial energy was released!&lt;p&gt;Each cycle he&amp;#x27;s pressed the spring down harder and longer.&lt;p&gt;His earlier courses came together relatively quickly. His design book was started on the back of a longer free campaign of tidbits on his blog and twitter. This time, he started by building Tailwind CSS into a top-notch open source library with extraordinary growth for multiple years before he monetized it with Tailwind UI.&lt;p&gt;1) It was csallen&amp;#x27;s helpful post on IH that sparked me into disagreement to write this one! See: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.indiehackers.com&amp;#x2F;post&amp;#x2F;adam-wathan-just-made-500k-in-3-days-from-his-new-product-603feefe61&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.indiehackers.com&amp;#x2F;post&amp;#x2F;adam-wathan-just-made-500k...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dominotw</author><text>&amp;gt; Adam built a massive following by giving devs what they wanted for free while contracting. This ranged from sharing countless useful tips on Twitter to blogging and then later podcasting.&lt;p&gt;Just a counterpoint. I had never heard of tailwind before it front page of HN couple of weeks ago. I bought it because it looked pretty and I need to revamp one of my sites. And yea price point was super attractive to me.</text></comment>