MyPassion.AI

I never planned to build a career tool.

For most of my twenties, my career looked great on paper. I built and sold a business as a teenager. I scaled a digital agency. I eventually led product at a 150-person Silicon Valley tech startup at age 27.

From the outside, I was the “rising star.”

Inside, something felt off.

I was not lazy. I was not ungrateful. I was just slowly draining. My work kept taking more energy than it gave back, and no promotion or new title fixed that.

The question that kept looping in my head was simple and uncomfortable:

What kind of work would actually make me feel alive long-term, not just accomplished?

Why “follow your passion” didn’t help me

I have always been skeptical of the word passion.

Most advice treats it like a hidden object you either discover or miss forever. Take a quiz, get an answer, problem solved.

That was not my experience.

I could easily list things I liked. Childhood interests. Moments where time disappeared. Activities I did when nobody was watching.

But translating those insights into concrete next steps was where everything broke down.

I would sit in front of a blank page thinking:
“Okay, now what?”

Every tool I found felt shallow. Generic questions. Generic outputs. Career matches that ignored how energy actually works in real life.

Nothing looked at early patterns deeply.
Nothing helped turn reflection into action.
Nothing acknowledged that careers are messy and iterative.

The tool I needed did not exist

So I did what product people do when something bothers them long enough.

I tried to build my own answer.

I combined ideas that actually resonated with me:

• Naval Ravikant’s idea of specific knowledge

• Cal Newport’s work on mastery and career capital

• Research from 80,000 Hours on meaningful work

• Psychology around autonomy, competence, and motivation

Instead of asking “what job fits you,” I focused on different questions:

• What gives you energy?

• What do you naturally return to?

• What skills are you willing to suffer through to get better at?

• What kind of work integrates with your life instead of consuming it?

When I tested the first prototype on myself, the result surprised me and annoyed me at the same time.

It pointed back to entrepreneurship.

Exactly what I was already doing.

That was the moment it clicked. The tool was not telling me who to be. It was reflecting patterns I had been ignoring.

What MyPassion.ai is actually trying to do

I am not trying to help people find a perfect job.

I am trying to help them find direction.

MyPassion.ai is built around the idea that clarity comes from evidence, not introspection alone. It connects early interests, energy patterns, and values to concrete career hypotheses, then nudges people toward small experiments instead of big irreversible decisions.

The goal is momentum.
The goal is alignment.
The goal is reducing the quiet anxiety of “what am I doing with my life?”

I also wrote a free ebook because I do not want this to feel like a black-box quiz. The evidence-backed science and reasoning matter. People deserve to understand the framework, not just see a result without concrete action plan.

Why I am sharing this here

I am sharing this on Indie Hackers because I know a lot of people here look successful on the outside while quietly questioning their direction.

Building things is fun.
Scaling things is addictive.
But misalignment compounds in the background.

If you are building something and feel oddly drained by it, that signal is worth listening to.

The ask

I am early with this and still learning. If you have ever:

• changed careers

• felt stuck despite doing “well”

• built something only to realize it was not aligned

I would genuinely love your perspective! Let me know here!

And if you want to see what I built for myself, it is here: mypasssion.ai

Free to try. No pressure. I am keen on hearing your honest feedback.

Marco