I completely agree. I've got some projects that may be interesting to you:

https://github.com/mathgladiator/win (very simple node.js platform that uses CouchDB for models)

https://github.com/mathgladiator/otto (replicating from CouchDB to node.js)

This really should have been a regular submission, btw. Anyways, clickable -

http://mirkokiefer.com/blog/2010/11/introducing-livelycouch-...

the website is now online: http://livelycouch.org