Flyers/meeting the neighbors classic for a reason. Be flexible and stay active even when it’s not obvious where the money’s going to come from. Selling weed or delivering food can turn into child care or home maintenance, helping someone move or haul off trash can get you treasures to sell, ranting about big tech all the time could get you set up doing cloud-free home automations. “Get in where you fit in”, we used to say. Never forget that every interaction those apps try to mediate is a human one long predating their existence, and you’re not alone in being fed up with them. Uber/lyft/doordash/uhaul type activities were called “gypsy cab” and were a lot more lucrative for the worker/affordable for the consumer before some prick in a datacenter managed to insert themselves