Shopify acquires Tailwind
Shopify acquires Tailwind
Shopify 收购 Tailwind
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.
今天有个大消息——Tailwind 正式加入 Shopify。九年多前我刚开始开发 Tailwind 时，唯一的目标就是创建一个能让我的个人项目更轻松构建精美界面的工具。快进到今天，该框架每周的安装量已超过 1.1 亿次，并受到全球许多大型公司的信赖，被用于 ChatGPT、X、Cloudflare、Reddit 和 Shopify 等产品的界面设计。我们加入 Shopify 是为了给 Tailwind 提供一个长期稳定的家，确保它能为依赖它的数百万用户得到持续的维护。
Why Shopify? 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.
为什么选择 Shopify？多年来，我们围绕 Tailwind 建立了一项不错的小型网站模板业务，但内心深处，我一直希望该框架能服务于一个真正的产品。一个能为真实用户解决重要问题的复杂应用，在那里我们可以面对与用户相同的挑战，并创造出能让框架对所有人变得更好的解决方案。Shopify 为我们开展这项工作提供了绝佳的平台。商家需要能够设计和托管精美的自定义店面，并在强大的管理后台中处理销售和库存。他们的客户需要愉悦的购物和结账体验，以及通过 Shop 应用跟踪订单和发现新产品的直观方式。此外，Shopify 在智能代理商务（agentic commerce）领域的探索，也正处于用户界面未来发展的最前沿。
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.
Shopify 也是最早一批大规模使用 Tailwind CSS 并看到其潜力的公司之一。他们不仅将其用于自身业务，还将其作为服务客户的核心技术。Tailwind 是 Shopify 技术栈中至关重要的一部分，他们致力于确保该框架得到积极维护，并不断改进以适应我们构建方式的演变。
On a less technical note, I’m personally excited because entrepreneurship has completely changed my life. We are not doing enough as a society to produce and empower more entrepreneurs, and I believe deeply in Shopify’s mission to help more people start, run, and grow their own business.
从非技术层面来说，我个人感到非常兴奋，因为创业彻底改变了我的人生。作为一个社会，我们在培养和赋能更多创业者方面做得还不够，我深信 Shopify 的使命——帮助更多人开启、运营并发展自己的事业。
What’s next? Nothing changes with Tailwind CSS or any of our other open-source projects. Everything will always be MIT-licensed, and our team will continue to lead and maintain these projects for the community with the support of Shopify. On the commercial side, we’ll no longer be trying to grow the business around Tailwind. All existing customers will of course maintain their access to products like Tailwind Plus and ui.sh, but we’re closing sign ups for new customers to focus on Tailwind CSS at Shopify.
接下来会怎样？Tailwind CSS 或我们其他任何开源项目都不会有任何改变。所有项目将始终保持 MIT 许可，我们的团队将在 Shopify 的支持下，继续为社区领导和维护这些项目。在商业方面，我们将不再尝试围绕 Tailwind 拓展业务。所有现有客户当然可以继续使用 Tailwind Plus 和 ui.sh 等产品，但我们将停止接受新客户注册，以便专注于 Shopify 的 Tailwind CSS 开发。
Thank you so much to everyone who has built something with Tailwind and supported us over these last nine years. I never could’ve imagined the project would become what it has today, and I truly believe there’s no better place for us to continue to do this work than Shopify.
非常感谢过去九年来所有使用 Tailwind 进行创作并支持我们的人。我从未想象过这个项目能达到今天的成就，我真心认为，没有比 Shopify 更适合我们继续这项工作的地方了。