The full stack of an agent-era blog
EmDash for content. Cloudflare for compute. x402 for revenue. MiniMax for media. Five plugins, four cron triggers, zero monthly cost on the free tier. Here's every layer.
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EmDash for content. Cloudflare for compute. x402 for revenue. MiniMax for media. Five plugins, four cron triggers, zero monthly cost on the free tier. Here's every layer.
I built a skills marketplace into my blog using EmDash's native x402 integration. Agents pay $0.10 USDC per skill download. Humans browse free. The whole thing is four files.
The deploy was gnarlier than the marketing suggests, and simpler than WordPress would ever be. Here's what went right, what caught me out, and the five footguns to know before you try it.
In 2014 your blog was a content marketing tool. In 2026 it's an API for agents. That's a bigger shift than it sounds.
I deployed a blog and checked /robots.txt. My hosting provider's default was blocking every AI crawler on the internet. That's the opposite of what I want. So I wrote a plugin.