I have a friend who made several web games that went viral (i.e. he is from Australia, and when I was in Sweden I saw people I didn't know playing it in the lec

I have a friend who made several web games that went viral (i.e. he is from Australia, and when I was in Sweden I saw people I didn't know playing it in the lecture). Very simple clones of other games in terms of mechanics, however he wrote them himself and made them topical to current events and pop culture. He put a link to his email and facebook in the footer (he had barely heard of github), and got several job offers from it. Note this guy was studying electrical engineering, but decided to pick up coding himself. These games got great publicity and landed him the job within 6 months of learning to code. If your game is trivial, boosting your profile from it can be a much greater reward than monetisation. Granted, this advice isn't as helpful if you plan on being an indie game dev.