Aditya
@AdityaShips X
A student indie developer in India: 30 followers in five months, then 10K in 120 days
Aditya opened his X account in late 2024, posted 18 main posts from February to May 2025, and says he had about 30 followers. On Jun 1, 2025 he started building his first SaaS and posted about four times a day: numbered build diaries with views, sign-ups and dollars, and a post at nearly every few hundred new followers. He says he hit 10K on Sep 29, 2025; today he has 17.8K.
- Report
- v1
- Data as of
- 2026-11-08
- Sample
- 686 days of posting counts
Aditya@AdityaShipsStarted with 0 followers on Jan 1, 2025.
Barely touched 30 followers in the first 5 months.
Then something changed.
In the last 45 days — I crossed 5000 followers 🥹
View on X →At a glance
- What it is
- A student indie developer posting daily build diaries and his small apps' numbers.
- Who it's for
- Indie developers and students building apps in public.
- How it earns
- X creator payouts at first, then his own apps (self-reported).
- How it took off
- From Jun 1, 2025, about four posts a day: numbered diaries, milestone posts and income reports.
X followers Fact
17.8K
Nov 8, 2026
To 10K Self-reported
120 days
Jun 1 → Sep 29, 2025
Day 6 diary Derived
26.8K
views, 41× his first two weeks' median
Main posts a day Derived
~4.2
Jun–Sep 2025
Summary
The play
Start building something and post a numbered diary every day with views, sign-ups and revenue; post each follower milestone; promise a face reveal at 10K and keep it.
Can you copy it? Our read
The method: start building something and post a numbered daily diary with real small numbers, about four main posts a day, plus a post at each follower milestone and a monthly income report. His "9 months" includes five months of almost no posting; the daily stretch to 10K was 120 days. Some later recaps state his starting count lower than his own June posts.
- What it takes
- A product in progress, about four posts a day, and replies (he says 15–20 people a day).
- Startup cost
- Time, plus X Premium, which he says he bought.
- Time to a verdict
- He went from about 30 to 1,000 followers in his first month of daily posting (self-reported).
- Window
- Build-in-public diaries are common; exact daily numbers and a low, honest start stood out in his sample.
Key findings
The diary with numbers
His first two weeks had a median of 652 views. The Day 6 diary, with views, visitors, sign-ups and $6 of revenue, reached 26,825. See play 2.1 (subscribers)
Milestones as content
He posted at 500, 1,000, 2,000 and onward, nearly every few hundred followers. The 500, 5,000 and 10K posts reached 28K, 27K and 61K views. See play 2.2 (subscribers)
Growth halved after July
About 130 followers a day from mid-June to Jul 29, then about 65 a day to 10K (calc). He posted on Aug 10 that his reach had dropped. See play 3.1 (subscribers)
Nine months, or four
"9 months" counts from Jan 1, 2025. He posted 18 main posts from February to May; the daily stretch that got him to 10K was 120 days.
What this channel is
- Platform
- X
- Format
- Short text posts with screenshots: diaries, milestones, income reports
- Who
- University student and indie app developer in India (self-reported)
- Started
- Account opened Nov 30, 2024; daily posting from Jun 1, 2025
- Pace
- About 4 main posts a day in the growth stretch
- Location
- India (self-reported)
Every number is tagged
- Fact straight from public data
- Derived calculated from facts
- Estimate from published pay ranges
- Self-reported what the creator says
- Our read our judgement
01How it happened
How the X following grew
- X 17.8K
- Fact
- Self-reported
Hollow dots: self-reported (the creator's own milestone posts) or derived. Solid dots: measured.
- under 1×
- 1–3×
- 3–10×
- 10× and up
Each bar is one day, in date order; its height is how many main posts (originals, quotes and articles; not replies) went out that day. This chart counts posts per day rather than listing each post. May 2–3, 2026 read zero for every account we track: a gap in the data.
| When | X followers | What happened |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 30, 2024 | — | Account opened (fact) |
| Jan 1, 2025 | 0 (self-reported) | |
| Jan 2025 | — | 36 main posts, mostly Jan 3–16: developer questions such as why Stripe doesn't work in India. Posts in our sample: median 506 views |
| Feb–May 2025 | about 30 by end of May (self-reported) | 18 main posts in four months (fact) |
| Jun 1, 2025 | — | "Day 1 of building my first SaaS. No investors. No cofounders": 5,826 views. Daily posting starts |
| Jun 12, 2025 | — | "I just reactivated my X account" (self-reported): the account had been deactivated for a while |
| Jun 13, 2025 | — | 14 main posts, his busiest day (tied with Oct 20) (fact) |
| Jun 17, 2025 | — | "Day 6: Building and scaling my app to $100 MRR": 26,825 views, his first post past 20K |
| Jun 18, 2025 | 500 (self-reported) | "0 -> 30 followers (6 months), 31 -> 500 followers (3 days)": 28,014 views |
| Jun 24, 2025 | 1,000 (self-reported) | "1000 Followers in 9 days" |
| Jul 8–29, 2025 | 2,000 → 6,000 (self-reported) | His fastest stretch. Jul 31: "Build 100 apps … Write 1000 posts, 3 will explode": 53,195 views |
| Aug 10, 2025 | — | He complains reach dropped: last week average posts got 10K+, now his best barely 2K |
| Aug–Sep 2025 | 7,000 → 9,100 (self-reported) | Monthly income reports: $193 (Jul), $307 (Aug), $220 (Sep), self-reported |
| Sep 29, 2025 | 10,000 (self-reported) | "Your boy just hit 10K followers 🎉" with his name and photo: 61,150 views |
| Sep 30, 2025 | — | "Just finished the last day of my unpaid internship.": 184,942 views, 4,067 likes, the highest in the sample |
| Oct 14, 2025 | 10,400 (self-reported) | |
| Nov 2025–Oct 2026 | — | Main posts fall from 99 to 39–87 a month (fact) |
| Nov 8, 2026 | 17,848 (fact) | Following 729 (fact) |
Follower counts before today are his own posts (self-reported); X does not publish follower history. Daily post counts are complete. Views are as of Nov 8, 2026. May 2 and 3, 2026 show 0 posts because of a data gap for every account we track, not a break.
Their own numbers, checked
He posted his progress often, so many of his claims can be checked against each other and against his post counts:
| What he said (self-reported) | What the data shows (fact) | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| "My 9-month journey on X — from 0 to 10K+ followers" (Oct 24) | First main post Jan 3, 2025; 10K on Sep 29. But Feb–May had 18 main posts; daily posting started Jun 1, about four months before 10K | The dates hold; the real growth stretch is about 4 months, not 9 |
| "Barely touched 30 followers in the first 5 months" | 18 main posts from February to May | Holds: he barely posted |
| Posting 5 a day for 4 months (Oct 14) / 4–5 a day (Aug 27) | Jun–Sep 2025: 518 main posts, about 4.2 a day | Holds, for main posts |
| Four months earlier he had 100 followers (Oct 21) / 100 days from 100 to 9.8K (Sep 28) | He posted 500 on Jun 18 and 1,000 on Jun 24; four months before Oct 21 is about Jun 21 | Doesn't match: by his own posts he already had 500–1,000 then; the starting point is stated lower |
| Started building his first SaaS on Jun 1 and shared every step | 156 main posts in June, every day from Jun 1 except Jun 5, 6 and 10 | Holds |
| Replies to 15–20 people a day (Aug 27) | We did not count replies; total posts minus main posts is about 8,600 | Can't check |
Reading the numbers
Fact
652 → 7,684
Median views: Jun 1–14 → sample posts of late July
June 1–14 is every post; July is a batch from Jul 29–31.
Fact
185K
Views on "last day of my unpaid internship"
Sep 30, 2025, the day after 10K; the highest in the sample.
Fact
729
Accounts he follows
Against 17,848 followers, Nov 8, 2026.
In the creator’s words Self-reported
0 -> 30 followers (6 months 🥲) 31 -> 500 followers (3 days)
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