I use Gemini via the VertexAi API, much better, includes Claude models and many of the open weight models too.
Ai Studio is terrible, Google's Ai products are subpar (save Deep Research), I blame Logan based on his social media posts and my in platform experience. They seem clueless over there with product.
Another thing I did with LLM which I found very useful, is to give the LLM an existing song lyrics and ask him to do a similar one with different subject I give him
I've started at 2018, mainly used a similar site to upwork but local to my country so less competition and most of the time when you find a client from there, they refer you or use you again
Of course adding there to your profile skills, portfolio etc, sending your CV and website can really help
Once you have a website like this or a few, always keep hunting for work.
You can fail to get one for 2 weeks but then find one that will last you few months of work
Normally as a "freelancer" you get make much more money with the same time of work, if you work fast try to always get a fixed price project and finish it ASAP.
If not you can use a client or a few hourly and over the time to look for those fixed price
If you new to this, you gonna make a lot of mistakes estimating costs on those fixed price projects, we all do. We learn over time :)
..."In the updated fee structure Unity is supposedly to soon announce, download counts would not be counted retroactively (i.e. all games would start from zero when the policy is implemented) and fees would be limited to 4% of a game’s revenue once it reaches $1M"
Still think the trust is gone, developers will just move slower to another engine
Also cause google to continuously reducing free tiers to stable their infrastructure
And it's also seems to be worse from here, probably for all major providers