--- title: Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify | daily.dev description: Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify, giving Tailwind CSS a stable long-term home with continued active maintenance. Tailwind CSS and other Tailwind Labs... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/tailwind-labs-is-joining-shopify-5wtla8j7j twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify | daily.dev og:description: Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify, giving Tailwind CSS a stable long-term home with continued active maintenance. Tailwind CSS and other Tailwind Labs... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/tailwind-labs-is-joining-shopify-5wtla8j7j og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/5wTLa8J7j.png og:image:alt: Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify **[Collections](https://daily.dev/sources/collections)** · 1 min read · 70 upvotes · 14 comments ## Summary Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify, giving Tailwind CSS a stable long-term home with continued active maintenance. Tailwind CSS and other Tailwind Labs open-source projects remain MIT-licensed and technically unchanged. On the commercial side, Tailwind Labs will stop growing its business around Tailwind: existing Tailwind Plus and ui.sh customers keep access, but new signups are closing. Shopify was an early large-scale adopter of Tailwind and already depends on it heavily internally and across its merchant ecosystem. For everyday developers using Tailwind, nothing changes on the surface. ## Content Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify, giving the Tailwind CSS framework a stable long-term home with active maintenance for its millions of users. All open-source projects from Tailwind Labs remain MIT-licensed and technically unchanged. The commercial side is a different story: Tailwind Labs will stop growing its business around Tailwind, existing customers keep access to Tailwind Plus and ui.sh, but new signups are closing. There's a nice bit of history here. Adam Wathan originally extracted Tailwind from a hosted checkout product he was building back in 2017. Shopify was also an early large-scale adopter of Tailwind CSS and already depends heavily on it internally and for its merchants. Almost ten years later, the framework ends up at a checkout company after all. The broader web dev community seems to be taking the news well, with congratulations coming in from Wes Bos, Cassidy Williams, Steve Schoger, and others. ## Questions this post answers ### Is Tailwind CSS still open source and MIT licensed after Tailwind Labs joined Shopify? Yes, Tailwind CSS and all other open-source projects from Tailwind Labs remain MIT-licensed and technically unchanged. Tailwind Labs joined Shopify to give the framework a stable long-term home with continued active maintenance, but nothing changes on the surface for developers using it day-to-day. _daily.dev helps developers track licensing and ownership changes for core tools like tailwind css._ ### Can I still sign up for Tailwind Plus or ui.sh after the Shopify acquisition? No, new signups for Tailwind Plus and ui.sh are closing following Tailwind Labs joining Shopify, though existing customers retain their access. Tailwind Labs will stop growing its commercial business around Tailwind while the open-source framework itself stays unchanged. _daily.dev keeps builders informed when commercial access to tools like tailwind plus shifts._ ## Community take How the wider developer community reacted, aggregated from 2 discussions and 39 comments across x (as of 2026-09-10). **TL;DR:** The reaction is overwhelmingly warm and nostalgic, with longtime followers reminiscing about Adam Wathan's early KiteTail livestreams and congratulating him on the full-circle journey to Shopify. **Sentiment:** 85% positive · 13% mixed · 2% skeptical **The case for** - Many recall the original KiteTail livestreams fondly and credit them with teaching them front-end styling. - Several see the origin story (extracting Tailwind from a checkout product) as the most compelling part of the news, more than the acquisition itself. - People appreciate the 'side project becomes foundation for something bigger' narrative. **The pushback** - One reply frames the move more skeptically as an acqui-hire rather than a triumphant milestone. - A couple of people note they still want a no-build-step option, an unresolved feature gap. **By community** - x (positive): Replies are largely nostalgic congratulations recalling the early KiteTail streams and celebrating the full-circle story, with only faint skepticism. **Open questions** - What happened to KiteTail after Tailwind was extracted from it, and could something like it resurface? - What will be the first thing cut or changed as Tailwind Labs integrates with Shopify? **Highlights** > @adamwathan the shopify part is almost the least interesting thing here. 'extracted from a checkout product' is the whole story, that's why it actually works. > — [bygregorr on x](https://x.com/bygregorr/status/2098036290180485298) > @adamwathan wait, tailwind came out of a checkout product? had no idea lol. such a random origin story > — [0xUnoAlpha on x](https://x.com/0xUnoAlpha/status/2098030448924676200) > @adamwathan well deserved, congratulations on being acqui-hired. > — [KingOKings on x](https://x.com/KingOKings/status/2098039513889063125) > @adamwathan we did the same thing with an internal tool last week. what was the first thing you had to throw away? > — [east\_zzzz on x](https://x.com/east_zzzz/status/2098050503590674693) > @adamwathan Great journey, I have been part of it at my side loved the way it has abstracted and made reusable utility classes. Just one thing I still expect to have is no build setup and that's the immediate requirement for my own WDL project > — [pradepdabane on x](https://x.com/pradepdabane/status/2098039412810735619) **Source threads** - [x](https://x.com/yukihiro_matz/status/2097958192462647529) · 0 points · 0 comments - [x](https://x.com/adamwathan/status/2098020042923217337) · 0 points · 39 comments ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@caleb** · 14 upvotes > Happy to see them get a home. I was worried about the long-term maintenance of the project. Shopify seems to let their projects do their own thing too, so I'm hopeful they continue that with Tailwind. **@geekluffy** · 5 upvotes > Much better Shopify than a private equity firm or a cloud provider trying to lock it into proprietary hosting. Tailwind getting guaranteed funding while staying MIT licensed is the best outcome we could hope for **@hardik15** · 4 upvotes > Looks good for the open web future. **@petecapecod** · 1 upvotes > yeah finally this is awesome!! Tailwind is great and has high adoption so somebody had to throw down on it. Thanks Shopify **@mdshafinahmed** · 1 upvotes > Great Colab. --- Tags: [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev), [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#tailwind-css](https://daily.dev/tags/tailwind-css), [#shopify](https://daily.dev/tags/shopify) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/tailwind-labs-is-joining-shopify-5wtla8j7j) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/tailwind-labs-is-joining-shopify-5wtla8j7j","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/tailwind-labs-is-joining-shopify-5wtla8j7j"},"datePublished":"2026-09-09T14:07:13.219Z","dateModified":"2026-09-10T18:06:35.028Z","description":"Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify, giving Tailwind CSS a stable long-term home with continued active maintenance. 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