I wrote a few applications for projects. I got one project that took 6 months. I repeated. As a dev I would make enough money in 3 months to pay my fix costs

I wrote a few applications for projects. I got one project that took 6 months. I repeated. As a dev I would make enough money in 3 months to pay my fix costs for a year. So, I only needed 1-2 projects per year. If you write 10 applications a month, which isn't much, and you only need 2 projects a year, you only have to succeed at 2%, which isn't that hard.