I’m not sure the R package is that useful either. Especially since there are a few ways to access the GBIF data from R already. I’d also say lot of the region and taxa specific apps I’ve seen using iNat data just replicate features on iNaturalist itself.
But this is why I think it would be useful to have a place to discuss projects. What do people need help with? For instance, I think building a toolkit that allows people to more flexibly make maps and phenological charts of iNaturalist records could be useful. Developing a tool that can generate species area curves or species accumulation curves from iNat data is another thing I’d think would be useful.