You can take a look at the
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=159.0 (Announcement section of the forum) there's a lot of recent projects that you can see there and up for mining the good thing is that the difficulty is pretty low and if the project is a success you will have a decent profit from it.
you can also take a look to this section (Mining section) and look for a good project, not sure tho what kind of project you're looking for but there's a lot of projects here that have a potential.
Will also watch this thread since I'm curious as well what are the new projects or coins that is good for mining but i'm not aware of.