The easy thing I can do to see the project is read the whitepaper, then focus on their roadmap, if the roadmap is in accordance with current facts then I'm sure this is a real and promising project, and several times I've proven it and get big profits with simple analysis the.
You can't determine road map efficiency if you're looking at it for the first time and as well as the project has just been out at the beginning.
But look at the whitepaper, you'll get to have an idea if they're going to have a good project. Because it's going to be your first basis to tell if a project is good or not upon looking at it for the first time.
Roadmap usually taken from whitepaper itself. If you have more time to research, whitepaper is a document that important to read, its give us a clue about the vision of projects and the way to reach it.