The recipe app landscape in 2026: Everyone has AI. Nobody pays creators. Zap Cooking is the only platform solving "how do food creators get paid directly." Lightning-gated recipes. Value-for-value. Built different. Join us: zap.cooking/membership

The best meals come from people who cook without chasing metrics. just good food, good people, and the patience to get it right. value for value in the kitchen.

Join us in the group chat 💬 https://zap.cooking/groups

Appreciate everyone who helped shape this. Zap Cooking memberships go live today. Zappy (AI kitchen help), Sous Chef (photo → recipe), Lightning-gated recipes for creators. Free tier stays. Premium unlocks tools we've been building. Details: zap.cooking/membership ⚡🍳

Three years ago Zap Cooking started with simple curiosity. What happens if you build on open rails? What happens if food, community, and value for value actually work together? We just kept building. One feature at a time. One experiment at a time. One conversation at a time. And the path kept unfolding. Tomorrow, memberships open. This is a new chapter for us. A lot of people say you can’t build a business on Nostr. Not enough users. Too early. Too niche. We believe something different. If you build something good enough, people will want to use it. If you create real value, value flows back. We’re opening three tiers: Cook+ Access to Sous Chef. Smarter tools. Better cooking. Faster creativity. Pro Kitchen Zappy, Lightning Gated recipes, and the full power of value for value cooking ⚡️🍳 Founders Club Limited to 21 members. The early believers. The ones who help shape what this becomes. You can pay with Bitcoin at a discount, or use Stripe for monthly or annual plans. We want to make it accessible while staying true to the mission. We’ve put three years into this. Self funded. Built in the open. Learning the hard way. Kept going. Any support means the world to us. If you believe in open systems, creator owned platforms, and building real products instead of chasing algorithms, we’d love to have you along for the journey. Food. Friends. Freedom. ⚡️

Three new member features live on Zap Cooking: Zappy (AI cooking partner), Sous Chef (recipe assistant), and lightning-gated recipes (pay creators in sats). Member perks just got better. ⚡️🍳

We are launching Lightning-gated recipes on Zap Cooking. ⚡️🍳 Unlock a creator’s best work by paying in sats. Instant. Peer to peer. No middlemen. No subscriptions. Just value for value. Pro Kitchen feature. Memberships launch February 17th. Food. Friends. Freedom.

This is Sous Chef. Your kitchen prep assistant 🔥 AllRecipes links → formatted Recipe photos → formatted Handwritten recipe cards → formatted No more manual entry. No more copy and paste. Just drop it in and let Sous Chef handle it. Available to Cook+ and Pro Kitchen members at zap.cooking February 17.

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Meet Zappy. Your AI cooking assistant who actually knows what's in your kitchen. Ask questions, get help, cook better. Membership feature now live on zap.cooking ⚡️🍳

We added groups. Build your cooking community. Invite who you want. No one gets shadowbanned for sharing sourdough tips. 🍞

We've been building Zap Cooking since 2023. Through the bear market. Self-funded. Showing up every day. Feb 17th, the next chapter begins. Memberships open at zap.cooking/membership

We’ve been building Zap Cooking since 2023 🔧 Through the bear market. Self funded. Quietly building. Sponsoring friends here on Nostr. Showing up every day. Somehow along the way, this became your favorite food place for community and connection. On February 17th, the next chapter begins 🌱 Over the next few days, we’ll start rolling out what we’ve been building relentlessly this year, in addition to all the features we've already built. For the first time, we’re opening memberships to The Zap.Cooking Club. This is about participating more deeply in the Nostr economy ⚡ while supporting what we are building and unlocking the next layer of features inside Zap Cooking. At the center of this launch is something rare. Founders Club 🏛️ A lifetime membership. A real seat at the table. A meaningful part of Zap Cooking’s next chapter. Founders will have their profile picture featured and receive access to all new features forever. If you believe in what we are building, we have a spot reserved for you. First Reveal: Groups 💬 We have implemented NIP 29 group messaging. Members can create private groups between members, and we are launching a shared public space for open conversation. Also live: Messages ✉️ We now support NIP 04 and NIP 17 direct messaging with the flip of a toggle. Messages are clearly identifiable inside the app so you always know which standard you are using. Simple, clean, and aligned with how Nostr is evolving. We’re live. Join the conversation: https://zap.cooking/groups We appreciate your support over the years. The next stage starts now.

Recipe apps don't respect your time or your data. We do. Something's cooking at zap.cooking — Feb 17.

Leftovers taste better the second day because flavors had time to marry. Your fridge is basically a flavor matchmaker working the night shift.

Recipe sites load 47 ads before you see the ingredients. We skipped that part. Just food. Just tools. No BS.

What if your kitchen had an assistant that actually helped? 🤖 Soon. 👀

Something's cooking. Feb 17. 🍳⚡