Adrià Martinez
@adriamatz X
Same volume, new format: "this app makes $X a month" posts took an iOS maker's views past 10K
Adrià posted 100–240 main posts a month on X from April 2025 and says it took him a year to reach 1,000 followers. In March 2026 he kept the same volume but switched to breakdowns of other people's apps, "this app makes $X/mo", almost each one quoting his own previous post. His March sample median was 11,839 views. He says he had 5.4K followers on Mar 15, 2026; today he has 13.4K.
- Report
- v1
- Data as of
- 2026-11-08
- Sample
- 602 days of posting counts
Adrià Martinez@adriamatz"I won't build this app because it already exists"
Meanwhile 15+ pdf scanners are splitting $10M/month
Stop overthinking and start shipping
View on X →At a glance
- What it is
- An indie iOS maker breaking down other apps' monthly revenue.
- Who it's for
- Indie app makers and people looking for an app idea.
- How it earns
- His own small apps; possibly a promotion deal with Anything.
- How it took off
- Same volume, new format: "this app makes $X/mo", each post quoting his last.
X followers Fact
13.4K
Nov 8, 2026
To ~5.4K Self-reported
522 days
Oct 9, 2024 → Mar 15, 2026
Top post Derived
290K
views, about 24× the sample median
Quoting himself Fact
54 of 58
main posts, Mar 1–14, 2026
Summary
The play
Find one format you can repeat daily (a named app, its monthly revenue, why it works), put the number in the first line, and quote your own last post every time.
Can you copy it? Our read
What you can copy is a repeatable format: a named app, its monthly revenue, why it works, and a quote of your last post. The recap's "2 weeks → 5.4K" has no starting point, and several breakdowns end with a tool he says the promo is from. Fits an indie maker who can research a new example every day.
- What it takes
- One researched example a day, in the same shape.
- Startup cost
- Time; no paid tools needed.
- Time to a verdict
- His March posts in the new format reached a median of 11,839 views within two weeks.
- Window
- App-revenue breakdowns are spreading on X; a narrower category may still be open.
Key findings
The format changed, not the volume
March 2026 had 120 main posts, January and February 103 each. What changed was the content: breakdowns of other apps' monthly revenue. See play 2.1 (subscribers)
Revenue breakdowns did about 6× the rest
About 20 March posts with another app's monthly revenue up front had a median of about 45,000 views; the rest about 7,600. See play 2.1 (subscribers)
Almost every post quotes his own
Mar 1–14: 57 of 58 main posts are quotes, and 54 of those quote his own earlier posts. See play 2.2 (subscribers)
The recap leaves out the starting point
"2 weeks later → 5.4K followers" is his total on Mar 15, not a gain. "Only post what i use" sits next to posts ending with a tool he says the promo is from.
What this channel is
- Platform
- X
- Format
- Short quote posts with arrow lists
- Who
- Builds iOS apps with @enocmatz; quit his job (self-reported)
- Started
- Account opened Oct 9, 2024; daily from April 2025
- Pace
- 100–134 main posts a month since March 2026
- Following
- 354 accounts, 3% of followers
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 13.4K
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 9, 2024 | 0 (account opened, fact) | "I'm on X since oct 2024" (self-reported) |
| Jan–Mar 2025 | — | 14–32 main posts a month, with gaps of 5–15 days (fact) |
| Apr–Sep 2025 | — | Posts daily: 125–244 main posts a month; 244 in August, his busiest month (fact). He later calls this "Posted random thoughts, Only shared wins, Hid my failures" (self-reported) |
| About Oct 2025 | about 1,000 (self-reported) | "Took me 1 year to hit 1000 followers" (no date given; one year after joining is our estimate) |
| Oct 2025–Feb 2026 | — | 74–104 main posts a month (fact) |
| Mar 1–2, 2026 | — | His own day-to-day: "7 AM Sunday and I'm coding", TikTok marketing doubts: 1,790–9,872 views (fact) |
| Mar 2–14, 2026 | — | Switches to "This app makes $X/mo" breakdowns. Mar 12 PDF scanners 290,030; Mar 13 rock identifier 288,379; Mar 14 a height app at $80K/mo 278,958 (fact) |
| Mar 15, 2026 | about 5,400 (self-reported) | Recap: "changed 5 things… 2 weeks later → 5.4K followers": 8,797 views, 59 bookmarks (fact) |
| Late Mar 2026 | — | Same format; month-end sample median 17,509 (fact) |
| Apr–Oct 2026 | — | 100–134 main posts a month (fact); no post sample |
| Nov 8, 2026 | 13,378 (fact) | Following 354 accounts (fact) |
Views are as of Nov 8, 2026. Follower counts before today are his own posts (self-reported); X does not publish follower history. Views cover part of his posts, all from March 2026; the post counts per day are complete.
Their own numbers, checked
His Mar 15, 2026 recap listed five changes. We checked what can be checked against the public posts and daily post counts:
| What he said (self-reported) | What the data shows (fact) | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| "I'm on X since oct 2024" | Account opened Oct 9, 2024 | Holds |
| "i grew painfully slow for months" | April–September 2025: 125–244 main posts a month. No views or follower data for that stretch | Can't check the growth; the heavy posting is real |
| "Took me 1 year to hit 1000 followers. Now I gain that in one month" | Mar 15 to Nov 8, 2026: about 1,000 a month (calc, from his own 5.4K) | Second half holds; first half has no date and can't be checked |
| "changed 5 things… 2 weeks later → 5.4K followers" | March main posts (120) match January and February (103 each); March sample median 11,839 | The change is visible: the format changed completely. 5.4K is his total on Mar 15, not a two-week gain; he gives no starting number, so the gain can't be checked |
| "quote posts with hot takes" | Mar 1–14: 57 of 58 main posts are quotes, 54 of them quoting his own posts | Partly holds: he quotes a lot, but mostly himself |
| "only post what i use" | Most top posts break down other people's apps; 6 posts in our sample end with "Clone it with Anything" or similar, and he replied to a commenter that "the promo is from Anything" | Doubtful |
| Bio: "Quit my job with €0 MRR" | — | Can't check |
Reading the numbers
Fact
11,839
March 2026 sample median views
67 main posts; there is no sample from before March to compare with.
Derived
~1,000 a month
Followers since Mar 15, 2026
From his own 5.4K to 13,378 on Nov 8, 2026.
In the creator’s words Self-reported
Took me 1 year to hit 1000 followers. Now I gain that in one month.
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