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I wanna use "так" dismissively as an interjection in a sentence like "Главное - собраться, а остальное, так, найдется." Maybe ellipsis would better convey the dismissive nature of the interjection?

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In your sentence, "так" is a particle, not an interjection. So there shouldn't be a comma before it.

See some examples from the Russian National Corpus:

Человек живет один и умирает в одиночку, а все остальное так, кружева нашей жизни…

В каждом человеке есть одно какое-нибудь качество, самое существенное для него, а остальное ― так, добавочное.

Это основная кривая года, а все остальное так, вокруг нее канитель.

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You version is correct, but used nearly only in oral speech, because 'так' is very rarely used for your reason and you need to supply it with intonation (some example). I can suggest you to use a similar 'и так' expression, which is used only for such case and does not need punctuation. Your sentence becomes:

Главное - собраться, а остальное и так найдется

The dismissive nature is raised by showing that you don't matter how something will be done. So you can use the following expressions instead of 'и так':

Главное - собраться, а остальное всё равно(=anyhow) найдется

Главное - собраться, а остальное как-нибудь(=somehow) найдется

Also, 'и так сойдёт'~'it looks similar to the target result' is a well-known meme from one old cartoon about a boy, who did not matter about any quality: enter image description here

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