I have found a little bit of success writing my own single file projects (no fancy web servers or build pipelines) and directly messaging people that I think would like to use it. They haven't grown organically from there yet, but I haven't tried to make the projects grow organically either.

The people who use my files seem pretty happy and get a kick out of them. I've written a few games and a few utilities like a flashcard generator, a practice exam generator, and higher level objects for other frameworks.

I wish the world would release more barebones and easy to use projects like these, but it seems that more people are obsessed with using the latest tech du jour.