WordPress.com’s parent company wants to be the place where AI-built apps go to live. Automattic introduced Spacefast on Monday, a hosting service that lets people tell the chatbot or coding agent they already use to publish a project, then hands back a working link in the chat.

The pitch goes after the chores that come after the code. In its launch post, Automattic said a user’s AI can now build a working app in an afternoon. “Then the setup starts,” the post continued, listing the host, database, sign-in, domain and access controls people still have to sort out themselves. Spacefast bundles hosting, custom domains and a SQL database, and the company said built-in app authentication is coming soon. Spacefast is set up as a new company from Automattic, and it opened to everyone today.

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