Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, on Monday, Nov. 9, launched Spacefast, a service that puts websites and apps built with AI chatbots and coding agents online.
Spacefast connects to the AI tool a person already uses, including ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor, and gives it hosting, a custom domain and a database, the company announced in a release datelined San Francisco. It says built-in app logins, transactional email and shared team knowledge are coming in the next few weeks.
Pricing
It is free to start. Personal plans include $1 a month of free usage, the Go plan is $5 a month and the Pro plan is $15 a month per member, with custom enterprise pricing. Spacefast runs on WordPress.com's infrastructure.
Who's behind it
Founder and CEO Batuhan İçöz built the first version during an internal Automattic project sprint, and the company soft-launched it in September, TechCrunch reported. TechCrunch said it competes with AI app builders such as Lovable and Emergent.
The launch comes after a turbulent stretch at Automattic: its board briefly forced out CEO Matt Mullenweg before he returned, and TechCrunch reported in October that the company had begun layoffs.