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Automattic launches Spacefast for agent-built apps
Automattic has opened Spacefast, a service that lets users deploy and manage apps through AI agents they already use. The service provides hosting, domains and SQL databases, with built-in app authentication still coming soon.
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A service for agent-built projects
Automattic has opened Spacefast to everyone, introducing a service for building, publishing and managing apps and websites through AI agents. The announcement was published on November 9, 2026.
Spacefast handles setup work such as hosting, databases, sign-in, domains and access, which the company says lets users focus on their projects. Automattic describes Spacefast as a new company from Automattic, open to everyone today.
Users can connect Spacefast to services including ChatGPT, Claude, Muse, Grok Bot, OpenClaw and Hermes, then ask an agent to put a project on the service. The agent can deploy a project or add a database using instructions prepared for it, without requiring users to open a dashboard or leave their editor.
Hosting, publishing and access
Spacefast includes hosting, a domain and a SQL database, which are ready when a project needs them. Built-in app authentication is listed as coming soon.
Each publish creates a new version with a permanent URL. Users can roll back to an earlier version or link to an old build, while privacy options include sharing a project by password, invitation, share link or with the whole web.
Spacefast also lists an API, a command-line interface and an MCP server. The service has approval checks for sensitive actions, including rollbacks and DNS changes, and collaboration tools that let people comment on pages and send feedback to an agent for updates.
Spacefast works with existing AI services and agents. It charges for infrastructure rather than AI credits, and users can keep their agent, its memory, context and files; projects remain on Spacefast if a user switches AI services.
Automattic’s examples and infrastructure
The company’s teams are using Spacefast to make partner dashboards and a photo-review tool for thousands of near-duplicate images, according to the company. One colleague built a site for the hockey team she coaches, with practice plans, game footage and a playbook.
Founder Batuhan İçöz also made an app to track hard drives in his closet, according to the company. Spacefast runs on the infrastructure Automattic uses for WordPress.com and Tumblr, which serves over 15 billion page views a month, according to the company; it also says the infrastructure has offered the same uptime and security for 20 years.
From an internal project to a company
Spacefast began as a project by İçöz during Automattic’s Radical Speed Month, when employees were given a month to build something they cared about. İçöz was on the Beeper team and began with a static hosting service after nontechnical friends asked him for help with projects they had made using AI, according to the company.
After users asked for a backend, according to the company, İçöz continued developing the service. Spacefast soft-launched in September and became its own company, with İçöz as founder and CEO.
Spacefast has a free personal plan. Users can sign up at Spacefast.com or ask an AI to connect, and the company lists official plugins for Claude, ChatGPT, Grok Bot, Cursor and Antigravity, as well as an entry in GitHub’s MCP listing.