Ask HN: How to start up as an individual developer?

Be consistent, try on multiple places, be active, make good site, good videos, good training, talk to people, listen what they say. Post it in reddit, write articles in places like here, dev.to, medium, explain how you did it, why, what you learned...

Cases where somebody implements something and it becomes viral for a one night sleep are so rare, that I am not really sure that they actually exists ;)

This is the standard for most projects

What is your objective?

You would have already known your plan, the five years is to clear out the trash from head and find why you started in first place