Tips for a Newbie!

Long story short I've finally crossed over from twitter to ig.
Yesterday I made my first instagram in the animal niche and read a few tips on how to get started.
I've managed to get to 460 followers with a 15% engagement rate right now. The only problem is I follow many people and am not ready to purchase a bot yet, does anyone have an app that's good to unfollow people? And also does anyone have a 1k+ SFS group I can join once get to 1k followers ( I estimate this will take me ~ 2-3 more days. Thanks in advance.

i wouldn't do any SFS for a long time man, i have a 111K and i'll do SFS with like 180K pages In my same niche all the time and i gain like 15-20 followers from them and vice-versa, all real followers... SFS is dead, there is so much of it on IG now that whenever normal users see a photo with text on it saying to "follow the accounts below!!!" their mind just makes them scroll right passed it now without even reading it... if people only did them occasionally, they'd probably be a lot more effective but people literally do them like all day every day now and normal users subconsciously just scroll passed without even looking at the photo because at first glance they already know what it is, i would use a bot eventually, then start follow/unfollow manually, i don't even use bots but from manually unfollowing/following followers of others pages in my niche, i gain like 400-500 per day, good luck man

use instafollow for unfollowing if you're on Android.

go on app store and search unfollow apps, they let you unfollow in 1 click