Like finding a needle in a haystack, for this moment and conditions there are many coins / tokens circulating in the market and of course you can invest. Choose coins / tokens that have a strong foundation and be a smart voter so that the value of your return on capital and profits in accordance with what you expect. I suggest BTC and ETH.
you said finding a good project is so hard so how can he choose a good project ? new project means that he was refering to ico coins or ieo but you suggested him eth and btc , btc is not even a an altcoin or a token but eth was too old enough though expectations for eth are still there . many user here also suggest cmc but i hear cmc wasnt really good for finding info , i hear many bad feed backs with them lately