I started off this way as well, no stake, only some trails and no delegations. I spent most of my days voting for posts with barely any strength behind them and leaving comments to the posts. Over time some liked what I was doing and started trailing their votes on my votes - i.e. they'd automatically vote whatever my account voted, this gave me more influence and I kept doing my thing.
Nothing wrong with starting your own curation project, although my advice would be to focus on a certain niche that interests you and you can provide some commentary and wisdom with it. Look for trailers first or if you have the know-how or can find someone willing to help, set up an account they can delegate to where you can take a fee of for the service while returning most of the hive from curaiton rewards back to delegators. Or just find someone who wants to reward the things you do and may give you a HP delegation for free.