We didn’t build another Nostr client. We built a home for food culture on the open internet.
2026 has been a year of growth.
We took Zap.Cooking from a web client that started as an experiment in recipe curation and transformed it into a food-focused social experience. By embracing Nostr’s interoperability, we’re creating a place where recipes, creators, conversations, and community all come together without creating another closed platform.
Joining the PlebLab Startup Summer has been a catalyst for us. We’re only at the beginning of the program, but it’s already bringing clarity to our vision. It’s helping us think beyond features and focus on how to build Zap.Cooking to scale, create an experience people genuinely love, and introduce freedom technology through something familiar and easy to use. We believe the best way to grow Nostr isn’t by asking people to learn a new protocol. It’s by building products they simply want to use.
That led us to our biggest project yet. Android.
We forked
@Wisp and built on the incredible foundation created by
@utxo the webmaster 🧑💻, who will receive a lifetime Zap.Cooking membership as a show of our appreciation.
From that foundation, we made it our own.
We’ve added thousands of new lines of code, redesigned the entire UI and UX around food culture, and built an experience purpose-built for the kitchen. This isn’t just a reskin. Recipes, creators, discussions, and discovery are first-class citizens while preserving everything that makes Nostr interoperable.
We also reimagined onboarding to make Nostr approachable for chefs, home cooks, creators, and anyone discovering decentralized social for the first time.
Our goal is to have the first beta in your hands by July 4th. We have a few final polish items left, but we’re getting close.
Here’s what you’ll find in the first beta:
🍳 Cheffy. Your AI-powered cooking companion.
👨🍳 Sous Chef. AI tools that help you cook, create recipes, and navigate the kitchen.
🌱 Nourish. Helping people build healthier habits through food.
💬 NIP-29 Group Chats. Powered by our custom relay with built-in moderation tools, giving community admins local control over conversations while remaining fully interoperable with the broader Nostr network.
📚 Recipe Catalog. The foundation for recipe packs, cookbook creation, community curation, and infrastructure we’re building to evolve into a dedicated recipe NIP.
The Featured Feed is our only curated experience. Everything else stays true to Nostr. Open, interoperable, and yours.
We’d love your help.
As we prepare for launch, we’re looking for a small group of beta testers who want to help shape the future of food culture on Nostr.
In return, we’ll add you to our Members Team for a 3-month beta window, giving you full access to Cheffy, Sous Chef, Nourish, and our premium features before they’re available to everyone else. You’ll get early access to new features, help shape the product through your feedback, and play a direct role in building the future of Zap.Cooking.
This has never been about building another social app.
It’s about building the home for food culture on the open internet.
We can’t wait to get this into your hands.
🫡⚡🍽️
Fire it up, post what you’re cooking this Fourth of July, tag @Zap Cooking in the app, and you might get a fat zap. ⚡🌭🍔
Thank you to everyone who has helped us build this over the last three years. This is only the beginning.
Stay hungry. 🍳
