Jay Dwivedi
@jaydwivedi_ X
A designer's X account: ten quiet weeks, then 10K in about six months
Jay opened the account in August 2024 and posted to almost nobody for ten weeks. In November he launched his own Framer template, started posting design work two to four times a day and gave away free files for a like, a repost and a comment. He says he hit 10K in February 2025; today he has 42K.
- Report
- v1
- Data as of
- 2026-11-08
- Sample
- 2,421 posts
Jay Dwivedi@jaydwivedi_Alright, it’s finally here!
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View on X →At a glance
- What it is
- A UI designer posting his own work, before and after.
- Who it's for
- UI and product designers, and founders who hire them.
- How it earns
- Client work, redesign orders and his component library.
- How it took off
- A free template launch in week 12, then a giveaway at every milestone.
X followers Fact
42.2K
Nov 8, 2026
To 10K Self-reported
~6 months
Aug 21, 2024 → Feb 16, 2025
Launch post Derived
161K
views, 42× his median at the time
Median views Fact
3,856
471 posts, first seven months
Summary
The play
Post your own design work every day, before and after; give away a file for a like, a repost and a comment; tie every post to something you sell.
Can you copy it? Our read
What you can copy is the mechanics: daily work posts, giveaways for a comment, a milestone gift. What you can't copy is the portfolio. Fits a working designer with files to give away.
- What it takes
- Design work good enough to show every day, and at least one file people would want.
- Startup cost
- Your time and a few free files; no paid tools needed.
- Time to a verdict
- Judge it a month after your first giveaway: his launch post did 20 times anything before it.
- Window
- The giveaway format is now common on design X, so the file has to be better than the others on offer.
Key findings
Nothing happened for ten weeks
The first 68 posts had a median of 165 views. The turn came the week he launched a free template and quadrupled his posting. See play 2.1 (subscribers)
The giveaway did the heavy lifting
Seven like-repost-comment giveaways had a median of 105K views, 27 times his median at the time, and drew 4,334 replies. See play 2.2 (subscribers)
His thread mostly checks out, except on replies
Two to four posts a day holds. "Four months" holds only from November. "I don't really reply" does not: each of the four weeks with reply counts had more replies than posts.
Later, jokes beat the portfolio
After April 2025 his posts got shorter and jokier; his three biggest posts ever, at 2.9M to 5.25M views, are jokes about design.
What this channel is
- Platform
- X
- Format
- Images of design work with one line of text
- Who
- Founder and designer with a studio (self-reported)
- Started
- Aug 21, 2024 (account opened)
- Pace
- 2–4 posts a day in the first seven months
- Location
- Posts follow Indian daytime
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 42.2K
- 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 week, in date order; its height is that week's most-viewed post (originals, quotes and long-form; replies left out). Hover a bar for the week's post count.
| When | X followers | What happened |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 2024 | 0 (account opened) | Posts 3–11 times a week; median 165 views over the first 68 posts |
| Nov 4, 2024 week | — | Posting jumps from 7 to 27 a week |
| Nov 10, 2024 | — | Launches his Framer template Aligno, free for 24 hours for a comment: 161K views |
| Nov 30, 2024 | — | Quote post "my go-to fonts for design": 348K views, 4,422 bookmarks |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 4,000 (self-reported) | "We're now family of 4000", with a free 50-tip ebook: 105K views |
| Jan 18, 2025 | 6,000 (self-reported) | "family of 6000", with free Figma headers: 175K views |
| Jan 30, 2025 | — | Free gradient file for a comment: 237K views, 636 reposts |
| Feb 16, 2025 | 10,000 (self-reported) | Posts his "0 to 10K in 4 months" thread |
| Apr 9, 2025 | 13,000 (self-reported) | Last follower milestone he posted |
| 2025–2026 | — | Shorter, jokier posts; the biggest, "bro disappeared like he never existed", reached 5.25M views in March 2026 |
| Nov 8, 2026 | 42,204 (fact) |
Views and bookmarks are as of Nov 8, 2026. Follower counts before today are his own milestone posts (self-reported); X does not publish follower history.
Their own numbers, checked
His February 2025 thread explained how he grew. We checked what can be checked against the public posts:
| What he said (self-reported) | What the data shows (fact) | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| "0 to 10K followers in 4 months" | About 6 months from opening the account; about 3.5 months from the week he started posting daily | Holds only if you count from November |
| "I've been posting 2–4 times a day" | Nov 4, 2024 to Mar 31, 2025: 403 posts and quotes, 2.7 a day | Holds |
| "I don't really do any reply, only when I really like someone's content" | Four weeks with reply counts: at least 200, 40, 89 and 68 replies, against 37, 21, 32 and 24 posts in the same weeks | Does not hold: each of those weeks had more replies than posts |
| Clean white roasts do better than dark ones | — | Can't check (we did not sort posts by colour) |
| Every post had a monetisation angle | Posts about his templates and components: 108, median 3,700 views, below his median | Holds as a description; those posts sell rather than grow |
Hottest and coldest
Top 5 posts by views
- bro disappeared like he never existed https://t.co/xK3oSrARZg2026-03-035.25M
- Its MANGO now https://t.co/FtBMEyNTsn https://t.co/nJ7ykg1Gu72025-06-163.03M
- okayy this one is helpful: When in doubt...2026-05-192.86M
- i don't want the "here it comes ahh" animations https://t.co/VXkBmaOaFp2025-09-172.58M
- what's happening to instagram, how to achieve that? https://t.co/4chiI7HRIK2025-11-141.62M
Bottom 5 posts by views
- @gumroad digging his own grave https://t.co/GW9HEos9Qu2024-10-2529
- @contra needs to fix this extra padding.. https://t.co/kYTIMVH0d5 https://t.co…2024-09-0646
- 👋 Hey Designers,2024-08-2758
- A must check infographic https://t.co/uMiO6iU3Bh2024-08-2566
- Do you like the idea?? https://t.co/5yBpXGv53c2024-09-0889
Reading the numbers
Fact
165 → 5,380
Median views: first ten weeks → Nov 2024 to Mar 2025
Same account, same kind of work; the difference is pace and giveaways.
Derived
1.6%
Engagement
Median of (likes + replies + reposts) ÷ views over 2,421 posts.
Fact
5.25M
His biggest post
"bro disappeared like he never existed", March 2026.
In the creator’s words Self-reported
Every post had a monetization angle.
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