I personally had found it very difficult, and it absolutely destroyed my mental health (it was essentially the trigger for me to get therapy).

Granted my mental health wasn't great to begin with.

You should have good photos. Like get a professional photographer if you can afford it, otherwise YouTube tutorials and a friend/camera timer. The picture is the first thing people see and their choice of whether to read the message at all or scroll onto the next person will depend on the photo.

It's optional but I found out withers calls you a loser if you don't.

Sometimes people build their own helm charts on GitHub, but not sure if that will qualify for "trusted".

You can make your own, if a project has an official docker image, it'll just be a matter of writing a deployment.yaml with that image,, a service.yaml for the deployment and possibly a pvc.yaml just to give it some persistence storage. Its what I do if a project doesn't have an official helm chart.