Independent like count for multiple items using variables?

I’ve found a somewhat fix for this.

Here’s what it looks like.
I have a component “Like+Count” that is a heart with a number below it. There are two total variants for the component: one is the “not-yet-liked” state and the other is the “liked” state. I added two properties on the component: LikeCount+0 and LikeCount+1. Both properties are Number properties. Their values are “208” and “209”. Both variants of the component have a text box below the like icon. I’ve set the value of the “not-yet-liked”'s text box to the property “LikeCount+0”, and I’ve set value of the “liked”'s text box to the property “LikeCount+1”. The prototype connection between the variants is simply to replace one with the other. Now I can insert the component into a design and then manually change two properties to the values I want them to have for that instance. This way the values on the instance are independent of the component and of any other instance.

Included are a few photos to show the process.

Main component looks like this:

Let me know if this helped!

-John

Components appear in Layers sidebar like this:

^correction, caption for last one should be “Properties on Component look like this:”

Components appear in Layers sidebar like this: