Landing a contract gig can have lots of hoops, verifying past experience, background checks, etc. For starters you could use your dated sites as portfolio piec

Landing a contract gig can have lots of hoops, verifying past experience, background checks, etc. For starters you could use your dated sites as portfolio pieces and try to get approval to obtain private beta credentials from your recent MVP work to show off your work. This would probably represent your experience more than making portfolio pieces just for your portfolio. Most companies aren't really picky about what your older work looks like as far as being dated. All projects looks dated after a few years. So I'd give it a go with your existing work and see if that opens doors. You can also work on adding in some portfolio pieces too while you're going through the process with what you have. Typically on interviews some of the conversation will center on code, but a big part will be experience working remotely, what would you do in this situation (project is getting behind schedule, you aren't getting data/information you need, etc). So focus on working as a team, bringing value to a project, tackling/learning new things, recommend frameworks/services that can help the project. Related experience with similar apps/websites. Good luck landing your first remote gig.