That's the one million dollar question indeed, isn't it? And the simplest (but often not useful) answer is, depends on what you are looking for.
I am a bit always all over the place and usually identified as someone positive, excited and always looking forward to march ahead. I rarely open up deep dialogs with lots of criticism or negativity (even if funded) because that's more or less how I am in life. Does not mean I don't see the bads, and all of those things... I just cope better with being on the positivism for my own mental health. The world already has too many dark sides :D - including my own one (when that manifests itself).
Having said that, and just as an example that might help you providing me some "extra info" for me to give it a try on recommending you something.
As an example, my main comfort zone is troubleshooting and learning about the guts of everything (that's more from my engineering side of it probably). But as I drilled along this path on Hive, I have started growing interest for solving certain problems the chain was not really actively focusing on, but that would both add more value to the chain (even if just a little percentage) or would make my life (on chain) easier. And that was the fact that living in NZ, my network distance to most things on Hive was the "longest" for me... (most things are in Europe and USA these days), and I am a really demanding person in terms of response times and how fluid things are (vs high resolution/quality of things in general).
So, naturally I have worked towards making this better for me, built my Hive-Engine node, and later my own witness and Hive API node. Then by trying to influence apps to provide the ability to select specific custom nodes, I was able to point the apps to my own infrastructure, and benefit from the local speed of things, which made me very happy about it.
At the same time, because the infrastructure is open, others (maybe around NZ, Oceania or even Asia) can also use it too. For free, no questions asked, like it should (while surviving the chaos of the world, aka hackers/scammers/etc). And around all this, I have also embarked on helping projects around the ecosystem, either with my testing skills or feedback.
This is where I mostly dedicate my time. Other than that is the pleasure of playing games, interacting with people, finding new things, meeting new people (like you for example). I am an explorer by nature. This all comes with extra knowledge that I accumulate over time allowing me to feel comfortable with my stake on the platform, while within my best ability, make an effort for teaching along the way.
@forkyishere account.Anyhow, you get the idea. Hive is a very big place. I could throw you to anywhere (aka suggest) I would see "we need people in this area" but that area is probably the area where I most struggle in recommending or guide people, which is "clear communication for audiences to understand this big huge Hive Community project" (in a nutshell do marketing about Hive elsewhere and with the right things that people would care about retaining more of them long term), and that probably relates to the reason you are asking the question in first place.
I try it myself (outside of Hive I mean), but I am miserable at it... always end up feeling I am being more of a jester than anything else. 🤦♂️🤣 - But I really don't bother though and as long it does "something"... I am ok with it... and I think I can tell I did something already. Is it seen as valuable to everyone, probably not, but I will keep improving on what I do based on others feedback. This is a decentralized community, so if everyone does a bit of "something" they are good at, eventually the platform becomes quite valuable.
Along anything you may reply, if you also let me know any apps or things you enjoyed around Hive so far, that might help me stir the conversation to the right path.
Thanks
RE: Trying this via 😎 Snapie (Call 4 Action) 💪