Unfortunately, my adventures through sites like Freelancer.com, Gun.io, and UpWork have been hard: most developers win projects with rates like $7/hr or $10/hr. That's pretty much impossible to beat, specially for someone living in the US.
As a matter of fact, since I haven't been able to find quality dev freelance work, I've been making some money as a contractor. I'm pretty good assembling furniture, plumbing, painting, stuff like that and my wife suggested that I used NextDoor to offer services. My rate is $30/hr and my nights are full (I think people who work like my schedule?).
How do you guys find good projects to work with? Is there a secret circle somewhere or something? Like a Freemasonry of software development?