How did you transition from working for someone else to working for yourself? I been trying to find a way to do it for sometime now, but I'm still not skilled, savvy, consistent, etc. enough to make it work.
I quickly realized 'doing' is the only thing that matters, not 'ideas' nor 'thinking about doing'
how do you promote the products that you make?
I promoted them wherever the people hung out, like particular subreddits with high concentrations of my target audience.
There is no guarantee it works, but life has been better since I started down this path.