I do gigs on Fiverr all the time, and if I'm honest it doesn't really make the money that would make the time spent worth it. If I didn't LOVE writing poetry, o

I do gigs on Fiverr all the time, and if I'm honest it doesn't really make the money that would make the time spent worth it. If I didn't LOVE writing poetry, or tidying up Rails apps or any of the other crap I do there, I'd have quit a long time ago. IMHO, a dev would better spend his time going from repo to repo on GitHub and cleaning up code. Like checkout random files and run Rubocop and fix it up and commit. Fast, simple tasks that get your name out there. Sooner or later you'll either become part of a larger project, or be noticed for your work and get recruited somewhere good. Either way, e-lancing is risky altogether because of disinhibition in clients. It's apparently tempting to let someone deliver a quality product and not pay or rip them off or just be rude to them, and oftentimes a platform will have more concern with throughput than with quality so if one dev gets ripped off it's not big deal for them. Like I said, build YOUR name and you'll go farther altogether. If you're doing it just for a few bucks, you're already doing it wrong anyways.