123: Ian Landsman - Marketing and Positioning a New Tailwind CSS Product

Topics include:

• Building website templates vs. a UI kit
• Should the product be positioned as a UI library or an educational resource?
• One-time purchase pricing vs. subscription pricing vs. some combination of the two
• Why marketing features can sometimes be better than marketing benefits
• "Dribbble but with code"

Sponsors:

• Cloudinary, sign up and get 300,000 images/videos, 10GB of storage and 20GB of monthly bandwidth for free
• DigitalOcean, get your free $50 credit at do.co/fullstack

Links:

• Tailwind CSS
• Tweet previewing the Tailwind component directory
• Article on Sketch pricing model
• MegaMaker Club
• Thermostat, the NPS survey software Ian is working on

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