TL;DR
What is Spacefast?
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, launched Spacefast on Monday to put sites and apps you build with AI online. If ChatGPT or Claude made you a page you can't publish, it gives it a home and a private link. It's fine for simple pages now, but wait on anything that needs customer logins.
What happened
Automattic launched Spacefast on Monday, November 9, 2026, as a new company of its own. It hosts websites and apps that you build with the AI you already use, such as ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor or Codex. Hosting here means the online space where your site lives so other people can open it.
Batuhan İçöz, Spacefast's founder and CEO, built the first version on his own during an internal Automattic project month. Automattic turned it into a separate company as the team grew. It runs on WordPress.com's servers, which Automattic says handle more than 15 billion page views a month.
How does Spacefast work with ChatGPT and Claude?
You keep chatting with your usual AI and ask it to publish what it built. Spacefast is an official plugin for the ChatGPT and Claude apps, and other tools can connect through its API, a standard way for software to talk to other software.
- A private link in the chat. Your AI puts the work online and hands you a link that only the people you choose can open.
- Comments on the page. A client or teammate leaves notes right on the page, and your AI turns those notes into fixes.
- Ready-made starting points. Templates for a portfolio, a menu or a landing page, with spam protection and phone layouts already handled.
- Your own domain. Use a web address you own, like yourshop.com.
- A database. Somewhere for your app to store information, like form entries or a product list.
- Approval checks. You choose what your AI can do, and sensitive actions need your OK.
- Export anytime. Download files from any saved version and take your app's data with you.
What isn't ready yet
Three pieces are "coming in the next few weeks," per Automattic's announcement:
- App sign-in (called authentication), so your own customers can create accounts and log in to what you built.
- Transactional email, the automatic messages an app sends, like order confirmations or password resets.
- Shared team knowledge, meaning your brand rules, playbooks and past decisions stored where every teammate's AI can read them.
Some early posts and write-ups list sign-in and email as included today. Automattic's own release says they're still on the way, so anything that needs customer accounts should wait. Our guide to putting an AI-built app online safely covers what to check before sharing one.
How much does Spacefast cost?
| Plan | Price | What it adds |
|---|---|---|
| Personal | Free to start, includes US$1 a month of usage | Custom domains and a built-in database |
| Go | US$5/month | Unlimited spaces and more usage |
| Pro | US$15/month per member | Team features and early access to new features |
| Enterprise | Custom pricing | For large organizations |
Automattic doesn't say in the release what a "space" is capped at or how much usage US$1 buys. Your AI subscription stays separate; Spacefast charges only for publishing and running what you build.
Who should use Spacefast?
Plenty of people can now get a working page out of a chatbot, then stall at putting it online. Spacefast suits a solo creator who wants a portfolio up today, a small shop with a menu or price list, or a freelancer who needs a client to sign off on a draft before it goes public. Teams where one person uses Claude and another uses ChatGPT can keep everything in one shared place.
It suits less well anything that has to handle customer accounts, payments or private data right now. WordPress VIP and Pressable customers can connect it to the site they already run, per Automattic.
X reactions
A founder's caution about the missing sign-in, and one of the first public builds:
Automattic launched Spacefast for hosting AI-built apps with SQL and versioned deploys. The announcement lists built-in app auth as coming soon.
— Alex Y (@AlexYusdut) November 9, 2026
Founders: check the customer sign-in path before treating a published demo as a launch.
https://t.co/4fAIEw32ql
Spacefast is finally open to everyone, and Unboxed went public with it today!
— Shameem Reza (@shameemdev) November 10, 2026
It started as my own practice and study notes for the AWS AI Practitioner exam. On Spacefast, it became a learning platform for anyone preparing too, with 69 lessons so far: https://t.co/DOLSYW8YWU https://t.co/HvhGOqeNd6
Our take
The hard part of AI-built pages has moved. Getting a decent first version out of ChatGPT or Claude takes minutes now; getting it online, shared and fixed still trips people up. Spacefast aims at exactly that gap, and the comment-then-fix loop is the most useful idea in the launch, especially for anyone who has to get a client's yes.
The price is low enough to try on a real side project, and having WordPress.com's servers behind it counts for a lot. Still, treat it as a place for pages, menus and simple tools until sign-in and email actually ship. A demo that looks finished isn't a product your customers can log into.
— Artificially Nerdy
What to do this week
- Got an AI-built page sitting in a chat? Ask your AI about Spacefast.com and publish it to a private link first.
- Freelancers: send clients the private link and let them comment on the page instead of over email.
- Planning a member area or customer logins: hold off until Spacefast ships authentication.
- Before you pick the Go or Pro plan, check what US$1 of free usage covers on your own project.
- Keep a copy. Export your files and data now and then, since you can.
FAQ
Do I need to know how to code to use Spacefast?
No. You ask your AI to build and publish, and Spacefast handles the hosting. It also supports popular developer setups like Next.js, Astro and Vite for people who do code.
Can I use my own domain name with Spacefast?
Yes. Custom domains come with the free Personal plan, per Automattic.
Is Spacefast the same as WordPress.com?
No. It's a separate Automattic company that runs on WordPress.com's infrastructure. You don't need a WordPress site to use it.
Who can see what I publish on Spacefast?
Only the people you choose. Each project stays private until you share the link with a client, your team or the public.
Sources
- Automattic: Automattic launches Spacefast (PR Newswire) — November 9, 2026, 9:00am ET. Features, coming-soon list, plans and prices, founder, WordPress.com infrastructure, WordPress VIP and Pressable.
- Spacefast — official site.
- TechCrunch: Automattic debuts a platform to deploy vibe-coding apps — November 9, 2026.
- Alex Y on X — November 9, 2026, 8:21pm ET.
- Shameem Reza on X — November 10, 2026, 3:06am ET.
