We already know that in the world of cryptocurrency we have valuable projects and platforms and at the same time as if existing in the parallel but intertwined universe are the shitcoins and there are many of them in the market today and more can be coming up soon. A shitcoin refers to a worthless project using cryptocurrency platform that is put up just for the sake of making money and nothing more. Of course, there are many types and forms of a shitcoin...and sometime determining one can be difficult that's why many innocent investors get victimized and can be victimized with their hard-earned money.
Aside from the usual reading of the WhitePaper and the scrutiny of the team behind if they are real or not...what other things do you use to see if one project has the potential to just be another shitcoin?
Like you said it hard some time to detect shitcoins or projects and aside of reading the roadmap, white paper and doing some scrutiny of the involved. What I also watch out for is the traveling of the team to summit, the community support they had and the utility of their project. However, you could also find some answer on this thread
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5004397.0