Bulgarian Host SiteGround Launches AI App Builder

Founded by university friends in Sofia in 2004, SiteGround has grown into a major Bulgarian tech employer with over 500 staff and offices in Sofia, Plovdiv, and Stara Zagora. The company now hosts over 3 million domains globally. SiteGround is a pillar of a Bulgarian startup ecosystem that ranks 37th globally. In 2020, the company migrated its entire infrastructure to Google Cloud, running its servers on Google's SSD persistent storage, a significant architectural decision for a major hosting provider. Coderick AI is positioned within a trend called "vibe coding," where users describe their desired application in natural language. The tool automates the creation of the user interface, backend logic, and database, bundling it with SiteGround's hosting infrastructure. This launch enters a rapidly growing European low-code development platform market, which was valued at over $6.5 billion in 2023 and is projected to grow at a CAGR of over 22%. Web-based applications represent the largest segment of this market. The tool arrives as the Bulgarian tech scene rapidly embraces AI. While 90% of tech professionals in Bulgaria report using AI daily or weekly, only 15% of companies had formally implemented AI solutions as of mid-2025, suggesting a bottom-up adoption pattern within engineering teams. Unlike standalone AI website builders such as Wix AI or Durable, Coderick AI's key differentiator is its vertical integration. It collapses the development, deployment, and hosting stack into a single product from a company that already manages the underlying infrastructure. The platform includes built-in version control, staging environments, and user authentication out of the box, aiming to produce production-ready applications, not just prototypes. However, it does not yet support third-party API integrations for services like Stripe or Google Workspace.