Yeah those websites were really insane considering there were all kinds of crazy stuff. These days are not really that different neither, we had so many DeFi projects that were copycats of pancakeswap, we had so many NFT's with "ape" word in it, we had many "meme" coins regarding doge, shiba, or whatever they can come up with that wordplay basically. All in all, crypto world is "originals" vs "fakes" and thats it, we will have one original that will do alright, and then we will have 100+ fakes of it, trying to make money. I really do not expect anything to grow these days, so I would stay away from brand new projects. But if I had to, dappradar is as legit as it gets, kind of like the ico listing places of the 2017 period.