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Determine what part of the stack you want to be on

Most projects are smart contracts, so thats Solidity and browser frontends like React

whereas in the Solana ecosystem both the node software and the smart contracts are written in Rust

amongst smart contracts there are about a dozen sectors:

Lending

Staking

Insurance

Options

Futures

AMMs

Optimizers

All the way over to NFTs

Within NFTs there are about 5 distinct sectors too, with the most action and capital occurring in the NFT collections space, followed by NFT marketplaces

and then after all that there are Web 2.0 style SaaS companies that provide services to web 3 customers for subscription fees. thats probably the most boring because they cant juice your compensation with tokens or publicly traded shares.

so pick your sector first.