Hard to tell from an HN user name :D. That's great to hear! I get how hard it can be - what you get out of it is learning though. We have some seriously cool examples that are just weekend projects for folks right now with javafx for example: https://github.com/deeplearning4j/dl4j-examples/pull/421

A lot of community contributions are in the examples now, if you haven't used dl4j in a while maybe take a look.