Finding gigs gets tough when you want to break out of web dev, to e.g. C++/systems/desktop stuff.. And also add REMOTE constraint to that.
Network[ing] gets mentioned quite a lot, but, from my experience, if you truly want to work on really different project/domain, you have to search elsewhere.
I'd be interested to hear where. I'd like to try freelancing, but my skills are in embedded, so I figured I'd need to get good at web? Where are you finding your customers?
You mean in web dev? It's been many years since I left this domain, but you can find a lot of remote/freelance postings in HN hiring threads, and other similar sources.
Network[ing] gets mentioned quite a lot, but, from my experience, if you truly want to work on really different project/domain, you have to search elsewhere.