Just make Nike shoe modals and you will get tons of audience.

Tell designers what to do, we love that.

There are thousands of other designers also posting shots that are "not bad", you won't get far simply by choosing the time of day you post.

Come up with an idea. Build something using the Dribbble API, a poster a day for a year, a different treatment of the Nike logo every day, Framer experiments with mini tutorials etc.

On Twitter I put a lot of effort into writing tweets but my audience didn't grow. When I designed and launched a font my followers jumped from a hundred to a thousand in a week.

Do something that's bigger than Dribbble.

Who has time for Dribbble with full-time job and NDA?

Day in, day out.

Hey Lucas, what is your end goal? Popularity? Reaching potential clients?

One focus on the number of connections you make. The other focus on quality.

What are your strengths as a professional? Are you sure dribbble is the right place to reach your audience?

I am not exactly a dribbble guy, but I guess it is built upon certain social dynamics - as any other social network - that you can use it in your favor once you understand them.

It's still possible to build an audience I guess, but I feel that if you haven't joined years ago it'll be a lot harder to stand out in any way, as the quality of work + Dribbble unique work is increasing as the pool of active users seems to be growing.

The main thing is, when posting on dribbble, you have two ways of doing it: - You design what you love and you wait for your audience to grow smoothly. - Or you design mainly for dribbble only making great squared pictures with amazing colours and all that crap.

You can be lucky if your job is to do amazing pictures. In that case you do what you love, and you get great feedback from dribbble.

Just be patient, and keep doing what you love doing.

Just some advices: - Try to follow people that make the same that you do, or do something that you would love to do. - Don't follow just for following. - Grow you circle of people that like your work and give some useful feedback to them.

GL to all!

It's a great question actually. There are a lot of ways that influence your Dribbble follower base. How I got to grow my userbase was by posting regularly, engaging with other people and getting involved with trending design trends.

I do think it's harder to get a massive increase in followers, than it let's say 4-5 years ago.

Follow more people with work that interests you. Post often and embrace it for what it is; visual flexing and experimentation.

Contribute to the community by building something useful on top of the dribbble API.

It's a lot of effort but it works. I started with about 20 followers when I first launched freeshot and now I have over 4k.

i wrote a detailed article about it. you can check here - https://medium.com/@droitlab/how-i-made-5k-dribbble-followers-within-3-months-and-you-can-too-bd5cde92c0c6