Abandoned Tailwind CSS projects

Pollen is the CMS I wanted to use for my own freelance work. WYSIWYG-friendly for clients, but stores structured data. Built the editor as a contenteditable wrapper that emits JSON Schema. Adopted by Pollen Labs (I'm still on the board but no longer the maintainer).

Shore is auth-as-a-service that runs on the edge. No central DB, sessions are stored in the user's encrypted cookie. Built for Cloudflare Workers specifically — the API is just a fetch handler. I built it for my own projects and never commercialized. The crypto is right, the API is right, the docs are sparse. Would love to see it find an audience.

Mosaic outputs semantic HTML, not a div soup. The constraint engine enforces grid + flex rules. The components are HTML-first with optional JS sprinkles. I built it for a client project and open-sourced it after. Adoption was low because the docs are bad. The core is good. Needs someone who likes writing component libraries.

Tessera serves MBTiles files as vector tiles with custom Mapbox GL styles. Used it to build a hiking maps site for a national park. The interesting bit was the style compiler that takes a JSON style spec and emits optimized PMTiles. I'm leaving the maintainer role because the OSM ecosystem has moved on to PMTiles and the project would need a rewrite to stay current.

Pinnacle is what I wanted Shopify to be when I was running a tiny t-shirt shop. Clean API, no theme lock-in, supports weird product types. Got to 40 paying customers, then realized I'd built myself a second job. Sold the customer list to a friend with a Shopify store (with their consent) and walked away. The code is well-organized. The docs are okay. The pricing model is wrong — I made it too cheap.

Driftwood was my weekend project for two years. It served my own blog for 18 months. It does exactly one thing: turns a folder of .md files into a static site. Has RSS, has tags, has a theme system. Doesn't have a build step. Doesn't have a config file. Just runs. It taught me a lot about Go templates. I don't blog publicly anymore (moved to paper journals), so it has no user. Would love to see it find one.

Folio renders portfolios from a folder of .md files. Lighthouse 100 across the board. Built for a designer friend who wanted something simpler than Webflow. The community picked it up after I left. The current maintainer added a theme system (I never wanted one) and a CMS adapter (I never wanted one) — both are opt-in. Healthy project now.

Vellum is a 4k-line Go program that turns MDX into static HTML. No JS, no hydration, no client framework. I built it because every other SSG I tried had a config file longer than my actual content. Vellum has zero config. The trade-off: you can't extend it. That's by design. Maintenance was light — I'd update a dependency every 3 months. I stopped when the Go ecosystem moved to generics and I didn't want to do the migration.