Don't you consider how big the community behind it? Remember that if the hype was coming from the community that was spreading the word about the project. The potential or big project will always have a very big community behind it. The communicy was also playing a very important role to make the project became a successful project. This already proven by so many major crypto projects.
A new potential coin will always have a solid community behind it
Yes i agree with this because i experienced it in one of the coins that i invested years ago, that has a great community and eventually the project succeeded. Having a good community to a project is one of the key for their success because many people will help the coin to ve known by many investors that makes many people will join the more investments they have.