I get good use out of these forums too. but lately the help sections have been quite coding focused. it’s been hard to get library or service recommendations, in cases where there are parts of a project that you’d rather not build for yourself.
from following this user’s other threads, it seems not literally about creating the project initially. it’s more about how to put together multiple components into a new project.
for example, it’s not trivial to add a backend to an existing static site (although I’m not aware of this being particularly easy on replit either). glitch wants it to look easy by having a nodejs or sqlite starter, but what are you going to do, throw away your existing site and start over? spend an hour figuring out how to fit your existing frontend into a new starter? spend four hours figuring out how to copy over the parts of the backend into your existing project?
Temporary end-of-support for adding new custom domains you have an existing custom domain that was created prior to the discontinuation of the feature last month (reportedly temporary 
). new users (or current users starting on new projects etc) are out of luck