About

Hi, I'm Nicolas. I build the web tools I wish existed.

For 16 years I have designed, coded and grown web products, my own and my clients'. OceanWP, the WordPress theme I launched in 2016, now runs on more than 500,000 sites. Amabrik is the next one: every website widget in one light snippet, no pageview caps, and nothing about your visitors stored on our side.

  • 16+years building for the web
  • 500K+sites powered by OceanWP
  • 1snippet, every widget
  • 0captured leads stored
Nicolas Lecocq, founder of Amabrik
Nicolas LecocqFounder, Vayalis
Why Amabrik

The toolkit I wished existed while shipping to half a million sites.

After years of building websites and watching how people run their sites, the pattern was always the same. A cookie banner from one company, a form from another, reviews from a third. Each one its own script, its own login, its own bill, and most of them metering you by pageviews so a good month quietly costs you more.

Worse, every extra script is weight. The thing you bolt on to convert visitors is often the thing that slows the page they land on, and a slower page converts fewer of them. That tradeoff never sat right with me.

So Amabrik is the opposite of that. One light snippet carries every widget you turn on. No pageview caps, no per-traffic surprises. Captured leads pass straight through to your own CRM and are never stored on our side. And it is built to stay fast at any scale, because a visitor's page view never touches a database. It is the widget toolkit I wished existed, made with the same care I put into a theme half a million sites depend on.

The journey

Sixteen years, one obsession with the web.

  1. 2010

    First lines for the web

    Self-taught, freelancing on WordPress, making themes responsive back when that was still a new idea.

  2. 2016

    OceanWP

    I launched a WordPress theme built for speed and control. It grew to power more than 500,000 sites worldwide.

  3. 2016

    Vayalis

    Founded the studio that has been the home of my own products and my client work ever since.

  4. 2025

    DigiHold

    A family of WordPress products, built on everything OceanWP taught me about what site owners actually need.

  5. Jan 2026

    LinkedGrow

    An AI tool for LinkedIn where you bring your own key and pay the model provider at cost, with no markup.

  6. 2026

    Amabrik

    Every website widget in one light snippet, no pageview caps, and nothing about your visitors kept on our side.

What guides the work

Three things I will not trade away.

01

Speed is not negotiable

A widget should never cost you a Lighthouse point. The loader is tiny, every widget is code-split and lazy-loaded, and the heavy ones run in their own frame.

02

Your visitors' data is theirs

Amabrik forwards what your forms capture straight to your own CRM and stores none of it. The only visitor data it keeps is cookie consent, in your dashboard, for your records.

03

Built right at scale, from line one

Every config is served from the edge, never a database read on a visitor's page view. It stays fast and correct from your first site to millions of views.