I'm working day and night on this very thing.

I'd like to see more practical demos and tech stacks that are turn-key. That way you can skip a lot of the boilerplate configuration and start tinkering out of the box.

My dream stack is a single dockerfile running bitcoin, lightning, tor, and node/flask with API integration out of the box. Paired with a signet node for hosting a private testnet with friends. This is what I'm working on currently.

Lightning Labs has a good introduction guide on their github for LND, with docker files to spin up lightning nodes.