Automattic launches Spacefast for vibe-coded apps

The WordPress owner is betting that AI-built sites need a place to run, not just a prompt box.

Automattic has launched Spacefast, a service for deploying websites and apps built with AI coding tools. The product supplies what a prompt alone cannot: databases, authentication, file uploads, email, and analytics. It is aimed at people who can generate an interface but need a place to run it.

Spacefast connects to agents including ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, and OpenCode, or to an existing Git repository. It competes with Lovable and Emergent but lets users choose their own agent. Batuhan İçöz, who led the project, said the idea came from receiving Vercel links from non-technical friends and wondering why Automattic's own CDN could not do the job.

For Automattic, long synonymous with WordPress, the launch is a bet that the next wave of small sites will be generated rather than assembled. Spacefast is meant to be the infrastructure beneath those sites, from database to deployment, without requiring a traditional development stack.