I play the drums, and my son has started learning too. I wanted a quick place we could both go to for rudiments. Rudiments are short practice patterns for your hands, and most drumming is built from them. My son could practise along with it, and I could brush up on paradiddles and the other rudiments I don’t play as often. So I made a small website called Drum Lab.

I didn’t set up any hosting myself. I used Spacefast.

What is Spacefast?

Spacefast is a new product from Automattic. On its homepage it calls itself “the publishing layer for your agents.” You make something with an AI agent, such as Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or VS Code, and Spacefast puts it online with its own web address.

Spacefast calls each website a “Space” and here’s what I like:

• Your Space is private until you choose to share it.
• Spacefast saves every change as a version, so you can go back to an older one in one step.
• The free plan covers 20 Spaces, which is plenty for hobby projects.

How I made it

The whole process was quick and most of it happened inside Claude Cowork.

1. Connected Spacefast to Claude. Spacefast has a connector for Claude. Once it’s connected, Claude can publish to Spacefast for you.
2. Described the site I wanted. I asked for paradiddles, the ways you can change them, and drum fills. A paradiddle is a pattern where your hands go right, left, right, right, then left, right, left, left (written RLRR LRLL). I also asked for simple language so my son could follow it easily.
3. Published it. Spacefast gave the site its own address straight away: adeline-drum-lab.view.fast.
4. Moved it to my own domain. I added drum-lab.adelineyaw.blog to the Space in the Spacefast dashboard. It’s a subdomain of adelineyaw.blog, a domain I already owned. Spacefast then showed the DNS records it needed. DNS records are the settings that tell a domain which website to load. My domain is registered with WordPress.com, and Claude added the records there for me.

One step caught me out. adelineyaw.blog was still attached to another WordPress.com site of mine, and WordPress.com wouldn’t let it point anywhere else until I detached it. Once that was sorted, the records went in, Spacefast verified the domain, and the site loaded at drum-lab.adelineyaw.blog

Making it easier to read

My son is dyslexic so I asked Claude to make the site easier for him to read. It followed the British Dyslexia Association’s style guide and added an “Easy read” switch at the top of the page.

When Easy read is on, the site changes to:

• A plain, clear font (Lexend) with bigger text and more space between letters, words and lines.
• A plain cream background instead of lined paper, with no drawings behind the text.
• Straight, simple boxes instead of tilted ones.
• Orange for the right hand and blue for the left. The guide suggests avoiding red and green together, so I swapped out the red.

It works in both light and dark mode, and each device remembers the setting so my son only has to turn it on once. Anyone can use it, so if the handwritten style is hard to read, give it a try.

What I found

• It was fast. I went from an idea to a live site on my own domain in one sitting.
• I mostly stayed in one place. Most of the work happened inside Claude Cowork. I only opened the Spacefast dashboard to add my domain.
• The only snag wasn’t Spacefast. My domain was still attached to an old site. If you’re using a domain you already own, check it isn’t attached to anything else first.
• It did the job. My son and I now have one place to practise rudiments together, in a style that works for him, and I’ve had a reason to brush up on my paradiddles.

If you have a small project like this, try building it with Spacefast and your favorite AI agent.