Most of our students are not unemployed. They are working, tired, and looking for something that pays without asking them to gamble their salary.
Small, finished, live
The mistake is starting with the ambitious idea. The thing that actually earns is small, finished, and live: a tool for one niche, a utility app, an internal system a business already pays a freelancer for.
Weekly assignments exist for this reason
A weekly deadline turns study into output. Four months later you have a shipped product and the habit of shipping, which is the part that keeps paying.