Turning My Passion/Hobby into a Business Made Me Hate It

Re:Turning My Passion/Hobby into a Business Made Me Hate It by lisasays on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @03:07PM (#36591262)

If you want to make a business, you must make what the market wants. Making your own stuff and trying to make money from it is possible, but it's no longer a business.

Right, we get it - but it's not binary, and in turns out there's considerable room for nuance. In fact some of the happiest and most genuinely successful people I know got there from figuring out how to navigate this valley, and knowing when to trust their gut.

It also has a lot to do with taste -- specifically for stuff that is awesome and cool, but just a bit below the radar, as it were.

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Re:Turning My Passion/Hobby into a Business Made Me Hate It by wvenable on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @03:34PM (#36591566)

I wonder if there's a distinction between doing what you love as work and doing what you love as hobby. I love software development and I especially love software development as work. I actually prefer to solve other people's problems than my own.

Perhaps some of this discussion is just talking at cross-purposes because the fundamental thing that we're discussing is not the same.

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