How many of you are *actually* working on things you are passionate about?

It's Everyday or Never. I can only bring myself to work on things I want to exist in the world.

Any chance of adding a 'Sort of' option?

If not the point is to work on something that I am passionate about, there would be no reason for me to do this. I'd be better paid doing a real job - that is, I would get paid! It does not mean that I don't have dips though. Sometimes it is mentally pretty hard, but that is out-weighted by the good moments by far.

I also have a different take on this. What I'm working on, which is my actual true passion, is personal freedom.

Building software products, info products, services, etc are just the vehicles that allow for that!

I think about this a lot and here is my take:

You definitely don't have to be passionate about the specific problem that your product solves. However, I think your success rate will increase dramatically if you care about the people/companies you are helping and/or how you are helping them.

My example: I really care about helping people promote their message online. I think anyone with something important to say should be able to do it on social media.

I run a SaaS (https://www.indiehackers.com/product/wavve/) that helps podcasters. I am not passionate at all about podcasting. I've never made a podcast. And that fact hasn't mattered to our success. But it still fulfills what I ultimately care about.

Following what I care about led me to another company (Zubtitle).

I guess what I am trying to say is... You need to have some conviction about something in this world to get through the rigors of entrepreneurship. There are a lot less risk ways to make money in this world.

I'm starting to care more about wanting to help other Indie Founder be successful. I could wind up building all kinds of different products and still be passionate about what I am doing.

For me the experience has been the opposite. I fell into something that I became passionate about, and after gaining some experience in it, found a niche to build my own business.

My business is curricular - helping creators make great courses at through free tutorials and paid programs. I started this business because I'm passionate about unlocking opportunity for people around the world and believe that high quality lifelong education is the best way to do it.

It was a long road to get here. I lucked my way into the online learning space through an entry level job 10+ years ago helping authors make technical training videos. I worked my way up, rode the wave, worked at a few industry players (Pluralsight, Udacity), and built some expertise in the space. I took a sabbatical last year to think about what to do next and came back to the same problem space. To me, it's still the most interesting problem and there's so much opportunity left.

I considered problems in other industries, but decided to tackle the one that wouldn't leave me alone.

what is passion?

I think "passionate" does mean everything and anything. If I enjoy what I'm doing (if I feel happy and content when I'm doing it, and I want to grow in this specific endeavor), it's enough, no need to go into extreme feeling like "love" or "passion".

So yes, I like what I do.

I work full time as a seed investor and growth at a venture firm, investing early stage startups. I’m pretty enjoy every moment.

In the evening and weekends, I build and run side projects to capture more values and practice other skills.

I’d say I’m 90% happy ;)

I tried to choose a company in a field that I actually enjoyed rather than just go for the most lucrative area. No I get to spend time writing about car photography or really anything about cars and call it work. Whether it ever makes me money is very much in the air lol

If you are passionate about the process of making things, then it does it matter? Probably somewhat, but not as much.