I’m trying something new. ⚡️
Tonight at 7 PM, I’m premiering the first episode of Connection, a new weekly podcast presented by Zap Cooking.
A big part of why this exists comes from my experience on Nostr. This community taught me how to build, experiment, challenge assumptions, share ideas openly, and just put things out into the world.
Now I want to bring some of that same creative spirit to Connection.
Food. People. Ideas. Building. Gratitude.
I want to talk with builders, creators, cooks, founders, thinkers, tinkerers, and people with interesting stories. You don’t need a huge following. You just need something worth talking about.
And I’m going to need this community’s help.
I’m looking for guests for a weekly show. If you’re building something interesting, have a story to tell, or know someone I should talk to, tag them below or reach out.
Episode 1 starts with a simple idea:
I don’t think we’re doomed. I think we should build something better.
Premiering tonight at 7 PM 👇
Watch Connection Episode 1 on YouTube:
The person who shared this calls it their favorite way to cook lamb.
That’s the kind of recommendation we like.
Slow, savory, comforting, and easier than it looks.
Lamb with Chickpeas
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Lamb with Chickpeas
One of my favorite ways to cook lamb, easy but delicious!
What’s the simplest meal you make that is still ridiculously good?
Not your impressive recipe.
The one with five ingredients or less that you could make almost without thinking.
Those are often the recipes worth knowing.
Before buying groceries this weekend, spend five minutes with your refrigerator.
Find:
1 thing that needs used.
1 thing that could be frozen.
1 meal you can make from what you already have.
Sometimes the easiest way to spend less at the grocery store is to start at home.
We simplify your cooking experience.
Not by removing what makes cooking interesting.
By removing more of what gets in the way.
Less searching.
Less organizing.
Less wondering what you forgot.
More time actually making food.
A community starts getting interesting when people stop acting like an audience.
Don’t just save the recipe.
Cook it.
Change something.
Tell us what happened.
Share the mistake.
Help the next person.
Food gets better when knowledge moves with it.
Our code is open source.
You can inspect it.
Learn from it.
Challenge it.
Copy it.
What you can’t copy is the reputation built over years, the way we treat people, the effort we put into the work, or the values behind it.
Code is available.
Authenticity has to be earned.
New iPhone Duo version in the works!
One reason we build in the open:
Someone out there will see something differently than we do.
Maybe you find a bug.
Maybe you have a better idea.
Maybe you build something we never imagined.
That isn’t a threat to open-source software.
That’s part of the point.
The Zap Cooking iOS app is getting closer. 🍎
A lot of the work right now is the unglamorous stuff:
Testing.
Edge cases.
Small interactions.
Fixing the things that almost work.
We’ve made great progress.
More soon.
One of the great things about food is that you can experience another place without getting on a plane.
A recipe gets posted in one country.
Someone discovers it halfway around the world.
Then it becomes dinner.
The internet is pretty great when it works like that.
Bitcoin is built into Zap Cooking because value should be able to move as easily as information.
But that doesn’t mean the experience needs to feel technical.
One-tap backup.
One-tap restore.
Bitcoin directly inside the app.
Powerful technology underneath.
We simplify your Bitcoin experience.
Marinate it.
Get the grill hot.
Give it about ten minutes.
Char, lemon, skewers, done. 🇬🇷
Sometimes simple ingredients just need fire.
Simple Chicken Souvlaki
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Recipe
A recipe shared on zap.cooking - Food is Open Source
Why put Bitcoin into a cooking app?
Because information isn’t the only thing worth sharing online.
Value matters too.
If someone gives you a recipe, technique, story, or idea that genuinely helps, Bitcoin gives you a way to say:
That was useful. Thank you.
Directly.
One of the strange things about the modern internet is having to rebuild yourself every time you try a new app.
New username.
New followers.
New network.
Nostr flips that around.
The app can change.
You stay you.
That idea is a big reason Zap Cooking exists here.
iPhone cooks, we’re getting close. 👀
Still plenty to clean up, but you’re gonna love where this is going. ⚡️🍳
Zap Cooking for iOS. Coming soon.
Cook+ memberships continue to grow.
We don’t take that lightly.
Every membership is someone choosing to help fund more building, better tools, and a stronger food community.
There are plenty of ways to monetize attention.
We’d rather create something useful enough that people choose to support it.
Before putting something on your grocery list, ask:
What am I actually planning to make with this?
It’s a tiny question that can reduce waste, save money, and make the grocery trip much more useful.
A grocery list gets better when it starts with meals instead of ingredients.
