I’ve heard the saying ‘build boring businesses’ before and was wondering, is it important to build a product that you are passionate and interested in?
Is it better to find a niche thing you are interested in and work on that, or build something for a niche that is somewhat uninteresting to you?
Would love to hear what you guys think of this and if you are passionate about what your business does.
Focusing too much on what you’re passionate about can actually narrow your thinking so much that you miss problems that you could solve. Passion can get confused with caring. You have to care about your users and therefore care about their problems.
“There are great startup ideas lying around unexploited right under our noses. One reason we don’t see them is a phenomenon I call schlep blindness. Schlep was originally a Yiddish word but has passed into general use in the US. It means a tedious, unpleasant task.”
http://www.paulgraham.com/schlep.html