How I Accidentally Grew an Instagram to 50K
I wasn’t trying to crack Instagram’s algorithm. I didn’t have a viral content strategy :/ I just posted things I thought were cool and somehow, one of the pages I worked on exploded from 0 to 50K followers in 6 months :O No ads, no gimmicks, just pure organic growth. Here’s what worked
Jan 15, 2025
Design
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Here’s What Actually Worked
We focused on trends, but made them original.
Copy-pasting trends?
Meh (¬_¬)
We remixed them to feel fresh.
We stopped overthinking.
A timely post > A perfect post that’s too late.
Speed wins
We made shareable content
If people want to send it to a friend,
it wins.
Simple
What Didn’t Matter ?
Posting every day
some of our biggest wins came from one great post per week.
Fancy graphics
some of our simplest posts got millions of views.
#Hashtags
Yeah, we used them…
but they weren’t the game-changer.
We got 6M views on a post with zero hashtags. (⊙_⊙)
The Big Takeaway?
People don’t care about “content.”
They care about
what’s useful, entertaining, or shareable.
Want to grow?
Make content that people want to pass along.
That’s it.
No hacks. No magic.
Just understanding what works and doing more of it.
or
just boost your post :|
