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Zap Cooking Newsletter — Issue 6

Sponsors arrive, experiments continue, and we’re building new peer-to-peer tools as Zap Cooking grows in the open.

Welcome @Oshi (推し) as the first official Zap Cooking sponsor ⚡️ Real food. Real builders. Value for value. Appreciate you stepping up and helping support the open food web. Please check out

Oshi — Artisan Nut Butters & Chocolate

Handcrafted nut butters, chocolates and more. Small batch. No fillers. Pay with Bitcoin.

and try some of his delicious products (the Hodl Butter is amazing 😋) View quoted note →

Early March means planning season. What you plant now shapes what you eat all summer. Herbs, lettuce, peas — they're all ready to go.

Today we’re rolling out a couple new ways to improve your experience on Zap Cooking while also helping support what we’re building 🍳⚡️ We’re testing in public and trying some new ideas. Boost Recipe 🚀 Want more eyes on a recipe? You can now boost it and give it priority placement on the homepage and recipe page. Simple way to get noticed, and a simple way to support Zap Cooking while you do it. Paid Partnerships 🤝 We’re starting to explore ways for aligned brands, builders, and entrepreneurs to show up on Zap Cooking through featured placements. That can mean a spot on our Sponsors page, or headline placement on the landing page and Explore page for 24 hours, 3 days, 7 days, or 30 days. There are a lot of good people building good things on Nostr, and we think it makes sense to create space for others to discover products and projects inside the circular economy. You can check out the sponsor page here:

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Zap Cooking - Food. Friends. Freedom.

A place where food culture can live openly and grow naturally. Share recipes, support creators directly, no algorithms or ads.

This is new. We’re still learning. But we wanted to get it live, make it Lightning-enabled, keep it transparent, and start testing with real users ⚡️ That’s how this platform has grown from the start. Grateful for the early users and adopters who keep showing up and helping shape what Zap Cooking becomes.

We're open source because recipes should be too. Knowledge shared freely, improved by everyone. The best dishes come from communities, not corporations.

Weekend starts in the kitchen. What are you cooking?

Zappy sits there waiting. "got leftover chicken?" ask it. "what pairs with this wine?" ask it. built right into the kitchen. Not trying to sell you stuff, just helping you cook. That's what a tool should do - disappear until you need it ⚡️🍳

We're not disrupting recipes. We're fixing creator monetization. Lightning payments for creators. No ad-supported scroll hell. Just value exchanged for value.  Food. Friends. Freedom.

Cooking is just controlled chaos. Embrace the mess. 🍳

Building something special takes people who believe early. Founders Club: lifetime access + recognition as one of 21 who showed up first. 15 spots remain.

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Zap Cooking - Food. Friends. Freedom.

A place where food culture can live openly and grow naturally. Share recipes, support creators directly, no algorithms or ads.

Most recipe sites are ad farms pretending to help you cook. Zap Cooking is the opposite. No ads, no algorithm games. Just recipes, community, and tools that actually work. Multiple ways to connect because community matters more than clicks. zap.cooking

Most cooking apps want your attention. Zap Cooking membership wants you to actually cook. Zappy, premium recipes, zero distractions. Join: zap.cooking/membership

Recipes you actually cook > recipes you save for later. zap.cooking tracks both.

The recipes worth keeping aren't the ones with SEO. They're the ones someone actually cooked and vouched for. That's the difference 🍳

I don’t think everyone realizes how good Zap Cooking has gotten over the last few months. Between @The Daniel 🖖 and me ( @Seth ), we’ve burned a serious amount of tokens building. And it shows. We shipped one of the best wallets in the space powered by Breez SDK. (That was all Daniel, thank you 🫂). Real self custody. No games. We also layered in @Branta for enhanced security (yes, we do onchain in the wallet ans well) Extra verification. Extra protection. If we are going to encourage people to hold their own keys, we better take security seriously. We built one of the best long form editors and readers on Nostr. Clean. Fast. Actually enjoyable to use. We rolled out group messaging. Integrated custom AI tools for members. Added two more custom relays. Built out a full social curation layer for food related topics. Behind the scenes we pushed performance upgrades, UX refinements, and steady improvements across the app. Engagement is up. Unique visitors are up. People are showing up from around the globe. We are building in the open. Iterating fast. Learning. Fixing. Improving. Kaizen, always. Food. Friends. Freedom. 🍳⚡️ Proud of how far we’ve come. And we are just getting started.

Limited drop: Sign up for membership in the next 3 spots, get a Zap Cooking t-shirt on us. Move fast. 🍳

The gap between "I can't cook" and "I cook regularly" is smaller than people think. It's not talent. It's having a few reliable recipes you've made enough times to trust.

Lifetime membership means exactly that. Pay once, access everything. Zappy AI, Sous Chef, Lightning Gated Recipes, plus all the new features we build. No renewals, no fine print. zap.cooking/membership

Cooking doesn't need to be complicated. Start with something simple. Make it yours. That's the whole game.