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Engineering insights, product updates, and guides from the SpiderPublish team.
You already have the directory. You just have not published it.
Most directory projects die at the data. If you have run SpiderMaps, SpiderSite, SpiderCompanyData or SpiderPeople, you already skipped that step. Here is the one call that turns those businesses into a page per city and a page per business.
Martin Shein
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Sep 4, 2026
I put a live AI agent on my site. It mounts in the page, not an iframe.
A hired AI agent now runs on your own site as a web component in your DOM — not an iframe. The session token stays in a JavaScript closure, the origin is allow-listed server-side, and the reply streams in. Here is the whole mechanism, plus the two places it does not do what you might expect.
Martin Shein·Aug 10
Why I rebuilt forms around typed fields
Your form collects a city. Mine collects a place. Why I rebuilt forms around 25 typed field types instead of shipping another text box with a regex in front of it — and what that changes for the CRM write at the other end.
Martin Shein·Aug 9
The agent did exactly what my tool told it. That was the problem.
An AI agent asked my API for a form's public URL and got a booking URL back. It built eight pages on that answer and shipped them to a live site. Here is what I changed so my tools fail loudly instead of confidently.
Martin Shein·Aug 9All Posts
You already have the directory. You just have not published it.
Most directory projects die at the data. If you have run SpiderMaps, SpiderSite, SpiderCompanyDat...
Martin Shein·Sep 4, 2026
I put a live AI agent on my site. It mounts in the page, not an iframe.
A hired AI agent now runs on your own site as a web component in your DOM — not an iframe. The se...
Martin Shein·Aug 10, 2026
Why I rebuilt forms around typed fields
Your form collects a city. Mine collects a place. Why I rebuilt forms around 25 typed field types...
Martin Shein·Aug 9, 2026
The agent did exactly what my tool told it. That was the problem.
An AI agent asked my API for a form's public URL and got a booking URL back. It built eight pages...
Martin Shein·Aug 9, 2026
I stopped maintaining my navigation menu. My folders do it now.
A menu item can now be bound to a page folder instead of hand-typed. The menu is generated from y...
Martin Shein·Aug 8, 2026
I stopped hand-writing content models. The agent writes them now.
Custom Collections lets an agent declare a content type, fill it with records, and put every reco...
Martin Shein·Aug 7, 2026
Every newsroom I could buy lets me read my press releases. Not one lets me write one.
Newsroom software is read-only, so nobody can automate a press room. I built one you can write to...
Martin Shein·Aug 3, 2026
I gated a page behind a login. The check runs before the page does.
Put any page behind a login wall: three access levels, member groups, posts filtered by tag per g...
Martin Shein·Jun 13, 2026
For agencies: every client's media — hosting, transforms, video, analytics — in the platform you already build on
Stop juggling Cloudinary, Vimeo, and Mux across every client. SpiderMedia gives each client a man...
Martin Shein·Jun 11, 2026Your documentation is now an MCP server: Docs Platform v2
Ask-the-docs AI, docs-as-MCP, versioning, dark mode, and analytics — your SpiderPublish docs just...
Docs Platform v2: your docs are now a product
Full SEO, full-text search, syntax highlighting, copy-as-Markdown, reader feedback, and an agent-...
Martin Shein·Jun 9, 2026
Control what search engines (and AI crawlers) see on your site
A one-click toggle per page decides whether it appears in your sitemap.xml and llms.txt — keep ut...
Alex Chen·Jun 7, 2026
Real login, now live — designable authentication for any SpiderPublish site
Drop a designable login, forgot-password, or reset-password brick onto any SpiderPublish site — a...
Martin Shein·Jun 7, 2026
Your documentation is now AI-native — let agents build and maintain your API docs
Docs Platform v2 makes your SpiderPublish docs AI-native — agents can build and keep your API ref...
Martin Shein·Jun 7, 2026
Booking Runtime: Forms and Availability at Scale
The unified form model, real-time availability checks, and webhook integrations.
Alex Chen·May 27, 2026
Designing for Multi-Tenant: A Component Design System
How we built a design system that adapts to every tenant brand while maintaining consistency.
Elena Volkov·May 27, 2026
Two-Phase Deploy: Why We Gate Every Push
Every deployment passes through a dry-run confirmation flow to protect production.
Marcus Rivera·May 27, 2026
Building Components in Shadow DOM
Shadow DOM provides style isolation but introduces challenges for event handling and theming.
Sarah Kim·May 27, 2026
Introducing SpiderPublish: Multi-Tenant CMS for the Edge
Today we are launching SpiderPublish, a tenant-isolated runtime that brings component-driven webs...
Martin Shein·May 27, 2026
I stopped building a landing page per prospect. The URL does it now.
Author one landing page and let the URL carry the prospect. The identifier in a /lp/ link resolve...
Martin Shein·Apr 13, 2026Meet Our Authors
Alex Chen
Lead Engineer at SpiderPublish. → View articles
Elena Volkov
Product Designer at SpiderPublish. → View articles
Marcus Rivera
Infrastructure Lead at SpiderPublish. → View articles
Martin Shein
Founder & architect of SpiderIQ, an AI-native platform for distributed scrapi... → View articles