Hey there,

It's a bit difficult to guess at the direction you would like to go - there are a lot of different avenues, so I'll leave some food for thought:

I really understand the 'tutorial hell' aspect you are talking about. Have you actually been turning any of the tutorials into a project of your own? Have a look at a few of our project tutorials, and see how you can actually personalise them. There are some folks that are improvising on them and turning them into usable real world use projects.

As your next step, I would be afraid that you might end up in 'open source hell', where you are gambling on finding some pleasurable and meaningful collaboration. As a possible solution, why not jump into our community at Developer_DAO of primarily open source developers, educators, designers and founders of all levels. I'm sure it would be a more human-to-human approach to find the types of projects you're looking for. The https://handbook.developerdao.com/ is a good overview to get you started and get some ideas and direction.

I trust this would be a good step for you to take. I hope you find it useful and also to see you in the DAO soon. You'll be extremely welcome, I can guarantee it.

Cheers! Piablo

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