I am not a developer but a few people I know were able to score freelance gigs by creating open source software for businesses and blasting them. One guy creat

I am not a developer but a few people I know were able to score freelance gigs by creating open source software for businesses and blasting them. One guy created a small utility for text expansion and easy to program keyboard shortcuts, hundreds of these exist, he emailed the Git URL to several businesses in the area who he thought would find it useful. They replied and now he has clients asking to modify/enhance his open source software.