Professional front-end developer here. I've been thinking the same thing for a while now.

I'm currently working on my own steemit based app, but I keep getting frustrated with the lack of some functionality on Steemit itself.

I would like to help out improving the Steemit interface even if it's just minor things here and there. If I'm not mistaken it's built using React right? I'll have to do a refresher course on that to get anywhere (I'm an Angular guy mainly) but after my app is in beta I'm going to invest some time in Condenser too.