There are an uncountable many "consultants" that basically did this, and use their GitHub basically for lead gen (I've gotten a good handful billable hours off

There are an uncountable many "consultants" that basically did this, and use their GitHub basically for lead gen (I've gotten a good handful billable hours off people finding mediocre little packages I've posted for articles, and that's without even trying). I think the disconnect is for devs that don't want to do that. But those same devs probably don't want to incorporate and go through the hassle of running their own business either. For them, who really just want to hack around and make software, I don't know if there's any real path. The whole value proposition of full time employment for a company is that someone else takes care of all that nonsense and you get to just do the thing you're trained for. Trying to extract that narrow piece out onto its own doesn't work well, and I honestly don't know if your solution really solves for that.