I once had a project for novice freelancers. The idea was to take your abandoned fumble and put multiple people on it at 3rd world rates. There are lots of people in cheap coutries who can somewhat code. You can aford hiring someone for [say] 3 euro per day. If they describe where they got stuck in the daily progres report you can look at it and help a bit or not and Just let them figure it out.

You can pay more of course, buy them a computer, an internet connecties, books, courses, even an office but it isnt required.

Just pay 60 per project every 4 weeks and ignore it. If interesting progress happens its fun to look at.

This sounds similar to how art patronage used to (still does?) work.

Which site did you use?