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Who else would love to see some Iranian recipes on Zap Cooking? 🙋‍♂️

Identity, keys & signing • NIP-05 — DNS-based identifiers ([email protected] verification) • NIP-07 — browser extension signer (frontend) • NIP-46 — remote signing / Nostr Connect / bunker (frontend) • NIP-55 — Android signer application (Android) • NIP-19 — bech32 entities (npub/note/naddr/nevent) • NIP-42 — relay authentication Core content types (the food platform itself) • NIP-23 — long-form content — your recipes • NIP-01 / NIP-33 — addressable/replaceable events (NIP-33 is deprecated, folded into 01; recipes ride this) • NIP-18 — reposts • NIP-25 — reactions • NIP-10 / NIP-27 — reply threading and inline mentions • NIP-22 — comments (kind 1111, frontend) • NIP-68 — picture-first feeds (Android — the image food feed) • NIP-71 — video events (Android) • NIP-38 — user statuses (kind 30315, Android) • NIP-88 — polls; NIP-69 — zap polls • NIP-30 — custom emoji • NIP-37 — draft events • NIP-53 — live activities (Android) Marketplace • NIP-99 — classified listings (kind 30402, frontend) • NIP-15 — Nostr marketplace / stalls & products (frontend) Social graph & lists • NIP-02 — follow lists • NIP-51 — lists (bookmarks, mutes, sets) • NIP-65 — relay list metadata / outbox model • NIP-32 — labeling (kind 1985, frontend) Messaging & groups • NIP-29 — relay-based groups (The Pantry) • NIP-17 — private DMs, with NIP-44 (versioned encryption) and NIP-59 (gift wrap) • NIP-04 — legacy encrypted DMs (both, kept for back-compat) Payments • NIP-57 — Lightning zaps • NIP-47 — Nostr Wallet Connect (NWC) Protocol / infrastructure • NIP-09 — event deletion • NIP-11 — relay information document (Android) • NIP-13 — proof of work (Android) • NIP-40 — expiration timestamps (frontend) • NIP-45 — COUNT (frontend) • NIP-50 — search • NIP-78 — app-specific data • NIP-89 — recommended app handlers • NIP-92 — media attachments (imeta) • NIP-96 — HTTP file storage (frontend) • NIP-98 — HTTP auth

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 and built on the incredible foundation created by , 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. 🫡⚡🍽️

What are you getting at the cheese vendor?

The perfect meal is grown by nature

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41538-026-00953-x

Today we’re introducing our simplified logo, which will be appearing across the Zap Cooking web app and the upcoming Android release. The pan and bolt icon isn’t going away — it will live on as a standalone asset across our brand, and you might see show up it in some new places soon. Fun fact: The name of the font used in our logo is Whoopass. It’s usually sold by the can, but you might be surprised to learn that artisanal whoopass is making a big comeback. If anyone has a good home-grown recipe, you know where to post it!

For us, the ”other stuff” is food. We can’t wait to show you what we’ve been cooking up.

🚨 New recipe pack just dropped 👀 One of the most underrated features on Zap Cooking. Build your own recipe packs, save your favorite recipes, and export them as a clean, formatted PDF to print, save, or keep in the kitchen. No ads. No clutter. Just your recipes, organized the way they should be. Built for food culture 🍳⚡️

I just shared a Recipe Pack on Zap Cooking: Lunch Favs Good Linch ideas Includes 2 recipes.

ASMR 🎧🍳

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