Perhaps you need a small amount of passion to get started. But passion and success are not independent, they form a very strong feedback loop. It is much easie

Perhaps you need a small amount of passion to get started. But passion and success are not independent, they form a very strong feedback loop. It is much easier to be passionate about a project that other people love (measured in downloads, users, revenue, media response or just feedback emails), than working on something that nobody else cares about for years.