I'm a remote freelance front-end web developer and most of my gigs at the beginning came in a similar way. I just showed clients stuff that I built on Codepen a

I'm a remote freelance front-end web developer and most of my gigs at the beginning came in a similar way. I just showed clients stuff that I built on Codepen and previous websites I built for fun for myself and things picked up from there. My recommendation is to start a daily project of some sort. Daily UI, Daily blog post, etc. It gives you a chance to put out a steady stream of non-perfect work and show off your process to potential clients as well.