Robyn Anderson built an AI app in three hours after a shower idea and tested it with Meta ads. She argues 2026 is when people stop building businesses and start building personal AI empires. The main blockers: not knowing how to use AI tools and not owning your ideas enough to promote them.
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I had one of those incredible ideas in the shower yesterday, and so I rinsed, got out, and I built the app within about 3 hours, and it's already being tested with Meta ads right now. And I was reflecting last night and just realizing that 2026 is not going to be about building businesses. It's about building your empire. There's so many ways to make money with AI. With apps and websites and creating this interactivity and customization within your business that you have already. And I'm looking around being like, why isn't everybody else doing this too? And it just struck me that it's confidence. If you don't have confidence in number one, how to use these AI tools, they just seem overwhelming and you're not jumping in and using them. And number 2, with any of these ideas, you have to own them and talk about them. And you know what? Sometimes I might sound crazy to my friends and family, but sometimes these things make a lot of money. I'm excited to see what 2026 is going to bring to creatives like me and like you who are actually out there building and trying things. Because you have to know, we're literally in a place of endless opportunity.
