Eliana
@eliana_jordan X
A dive instructor who learned to code: 10K on X in 266 days
Eliana opened her X account in Thailand in December 2024 and built small SaaS products in public, posting one to three main posts a day. She moderated a startup community on X and ran a weekly "drop your SaaS" post. One short post in July 2025, €700 a month and kitesurfing against the $10K MRR crowd, was followed by 3,600 followers in six days. She says she hit 10K on Sep 14, 2025; today she has 33.6K.
- Report
- v1
- Data as of
- 2026-11-08
- Sample
- 523 days of posting counts
Eliana@eliana_jordan10k!! I can't believe it 🎉
When I started this account almost 9 months ago in Thailand, I just wanted to share and learn about SaaS. I never imagined I'd reach 10k this fast.
View on X →At a glance
- What it is
- A dive instructor building small SaaS products in public.
- Who it's for
- Solo SaaS founders, new coders and digital nomads.
- How it earns
- Her SaaS products, an ebook on growing on X, paid collabs and post slots (self-reported).
- How it took off
- Daily posts and community threads, then one short contrast post followed by 3,600 followers in six days.
X followers Fact
33.6K
Nov 8, 2026
To 10K Self-reported
266 days
Dec 22, 2024 → Sep 14, 2025
"Dream smaller" post Derived
119K
views; +3,600 followers in the next six days
Main posts a day Derived
2–3
Jun 2025 onward
Summary
The play
Post your contrast with the crowd in one short line; post every day and reply a lot; run a weekly "drop your product" thread in a community you help moderate.
Can you copy it? Our read
The method: post every day for months, reply a lot, run a weekly product thread in a community you moderate, and put your contrast with the crowd into one short line. One such line was followed by 3,600 followers in six days. Her "no audience" start sits beside a 24K diving Instagram she mentioned in January 2025; around 10K she began selling an ebook on growing on X and post slots.
- What it takes
- A real contrast with your niche, daily posts and replies, and a role in a community.
- Startup cost
- Time, plus X Premium, which she says she bought in July 2025.
- Time to a verdict
- About six months of daily posting to 3,400; the jump came in month seven.
- Window
- SaaS build-in-public is crowded; a contrast against the usual MRR goal still stood out in her sample.
Key findings
One contrast line, 3,600 followers
"Dream smaller. It's cheaper." reached 119,167 views on Jul 16, 2025. Her own posts put her at 4,800 the next day and 8,400 six days later. See play 2.1 (subscribers)
A community role
She moderates a startup community and hosts a weekly "drop your SaaS" thread; one reached 27,876 views. See play 2.3 (subscribers)
A plateau after the jump
From 8,400 to 10K took about seven weeks, about 30 a day (calc). In August she posted that 10K was coming slowly. See play 3.1 (subscribers)
"No audience", with 24K elsewhere
Her recap says she started with no audience. In January 2025 she said her diving Instagram had 24K followers.
What this channel is
- Platform
- X
- Format
- Short text posts, questions, weekly community threads
- Who
- Diving instructor who learned to code; builds small SaaS products (self-reported)
- Started
- Dec 22, 2024, the day the account opened
- Pace
- 1–3 main posts a day in her growth stretch, about 4 a day by Oct 2026
- Location
- Thailand and Vietnam in her posts (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 33.6K
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 22, 2024 | 0 (fact) | Account opened; first post the same day |
| Jan 2025 | — | She says she has a 24K-follower diving Instagram account she uses to promote her app (self-reported). Jan 15–28: 8 main posts, median 309 views |
| Feb–May 2025 | — | 31–49 main posts a month, almost every day (fact) |
| Mar 29, 2025 | — | "SaaSturday Drop your SaaS here": 27,876 views |
| May 15, 2025 | +400 overnight (self-reported) | Launches Peerquik on Product Hunt |
| Jun 2025 | — | 88 main posts, twice May's count (fact) |
| Jun 29, 2025 | 3,400 (self-reported) | "6 months ago I joined X … Moderator in the Startup community": 13,511 views |
| Jul 14, 2025 | — | She says she bought X Premium this month and gained 500+ followers overnight |
| Jul 16, 2025 | — | "Dream smaller. It's cheaper.": 119,167 views, 1,695 likes |
| Jul 17, 2025 | 4,800 (self-reported) | "No growth hacks. No viral threads. No engagement pods." |
| Jul 23, 2025 | 8,400 (self-reported) | 3,600 in six days (calc) |
| Aug 7 – Sep 12, 2025 | 9,000 → 9,800 (self-reported) | Aug 15: she posts that 10K is coming slowly (self-reported). Sep 12: she nearly lost the account |
| Sep 14, 2025 | 10,000 (self-reported) | "10k!!": 39,450 views |
| Sep 30, 2025 | — | "$20k MRR. No app name … Must be real. 🙃": 607,660 views, 413 likes, the highest in the sample |
| Oct 10, 2025 | — | "they said I couldn't … 1 year later: I built 4 SaaS": 2,322,951 views, 1,042 likes |
| Nov 28, 2025 | 16,000 (self-reported) | A 45-page ebook on growing on X, $9.99 at launch |
| Sep–Oct 2026 | — | 115 and 125 main posts, her busiest months (fact). Sep 1, 2026: 8 posts, her busiest day (fact) |
| Nov 8, 2026 | 33,551 (fact) | Following 1,053 (fact) |
Follower counts before today are her 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
Her recaps describe a no-tricks path. We checked what can be checked:
| What she said (self-reported) | What the data shows (fact) | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| "10 months ago I had no audience" (Nov 28, 2025) | In January 2025 she said she had a 24K-follower diving Instagram account she used for her app (self-reported) | Doesn't match: X started from zero, but she had an audience elsewhere |
| "4.8k followers on X in 6 months. No growth hacks. No viral threads. No engagement pods. Just posting every day" (Jul 17) | Near-daily posting from February holds. The day before, her Jul 16 post reached 119,167 views, and six days later she says 8,400. She moderates a startup community and runs a weekly "drop your SaaS" post | "Every day" holds; "no viral" held only at the moment she wrote it |
| "almost 9 months ago" (Sep 14) | Account opened Dec 22, 2024; 266 days to Sep 14 | Holds |
| Once gained 3,000 in two days (Jul 31) | 4,800 on Jul 17 to 8,400 on Jul 23: 3,600 in six days, between her own two posts | Direction holds; "two days" can't be checked |
| "I grew to 15k on X" in 10 months (Nov 28) | About 11 months from opening the account | Holds |
| 4 SaaS products and 500+ users | — | Can't check |
Reading the numbers
Fact
309
Median views, Jan 15–28, 2025
Every main post in the first two weeks of our sample (8 posts).
Fact
2.3M
Views on her Oct 10, 2025 post
1,042 likes: a far lower like rate than her usual posts.
Self-reported
$87
X payout for 11M impressions
Her own post, September 2025.
Fact
1,053
Accounts she follows
Against 33,551 followers, Nov 8, 2026.
In the creator’s words Self-reported
Dream smaller. It's cheaper.
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