Robert Janezic is a product designer who noticed a gap that most Tableau users lived with daily: there was no clean way to mock up a Tableau dashboard in Figma before building the real thing. Designers were rebuilding Tableau's components by hand or skipping prototyping entirely. He decided to package those components, styles, and example layouts into a single Figma file that anyone could buy and start designing with immediately.

By his own account he knew fairly little about building UI kits and did not have the Figma skills the project demanded when he started. He built it anyway, spending roughly six months on the first version while doubting throughout whether it was worth finishing. He frames the build phase honestly: the work is mostly pushing through the stretch where you are not sure you can pull it off.

He distributed the kit where his buyers already were. The Tableau and data visualization community on LinkedIn and Twitter gave him an audience that understood the problem, and the Figma Community gave him a storefront with built-in discovery. Sales run through his own site, nudgebi.com, with a single-user license around $249 and a team license around $399, paid once and used forever.

In a Typefully post he published in May 2026, Janezic says the Tableau UI Kit and a companion Power BI kit together brought in $53k over 506 days, all in his free time. That works out to roughly $3k a month on average, though revenue from a one-time digital product arrives in bursts rather than a steady subscription line. He has since shipped versions 2.0 and 3.0, which suggests the product kept earning enough to justify ongoing investment.

The takeaway he keeps returning to is that the product lived in his head before he had the skills to make it, and the skills came from building. He picked a narrow audience he understood, solved one specific annoyance well, and let a one-time download do the selling for him on repeat.