The problem is that 99.9% of "projects" are just people looking for others to give them money, which isn't a "viable project" as you say. If the project is good, develop it into something and then you'll have people discussing the project and bumping it to keep it relevant for you. If your project is just a bunch of promises of building something amazing, and there's no working prototype of infrastructure, then you aren't posting a project, you're posting a pipe dream and asking for handouts. This isn't the forum for that. Build something that works first, then promote it.
We weren't asking for money because we built the project with our own money already. We were merely introducing people to the project. A free project at that. We did find out that all newbies posts are sent to the second page. This is per the moderator. Didn't used to be that way.