Zap Cooking
Food is culture. Food is community.
Zap Cooking is a Nostr-native cooking and food culture platform built around discovery, creativity, and value-for-value. It is not just a recipe app. It is a place where people share food, ideas, and inspiration without algorithms, ads, or extraction.
Built on open protocols. Powered by Nostr. Fueled by people who love to cook.
Check it out at zap.cooking
What Zap Cooking Is
Zap Cooking is a decentralized recipe and food culture app where:
- Recipes are shared as Nostr events
- Identity is your Nostr key, not an account
- Value flows peer-to-peer through Lightning zaps
- Discovery comes from people, not algorithms
- Creativity compounds through community feedback
If you believe food connects people and culture matters more than clicks, you're in the right place.
Core Principles
- Nostr-native — Built directly on the Nostr protocol. No walled gardens.
- Value for Value — Support creators with Lightning zaps. No ads. No paywalls.
- Human Discovery — Explore recipes, cooks, and ideas organically.
- Open and Experimental — This project evolves in public and improves through iteration.
Features
Recipes & Content
- Recipe Publishing — Create and share recipes with markdown, images, tags, servings, prep/cook times.
- Gated Recipes — Publish premium recipes available only to members.
- Recipe Extraction — Import recipes from URLs or paste raw content.
- Longform Articles — Write and read food articles and stories (NIP-23 kind 30023) with a full editor and draft system.
- Food Culture Feed — Post updates, thoughts, and food stories to a social feed with global, following, and community tabs.
Discovery
- Explore Page — Curated collections, popular cooks, trending tags, recent recipes, and longform food articles.
- Mesh Visualization — Interactive D3 force-directed network graph showing recipes, connections, and engagement relationships.
- Tag Browsing — Browse recipes by category with trending tag discovery.
- Creator Profiles — Follow cooks, explore their recipes and articles, and view profile badges.
Community & Messaging
- Direct Messages — Encrypted private messaging (NIP-17) between users.
- Group Chat — NIP-29 relay-based group conversations hosted on the Pantry relay (
wss://pantry.zap.cooking). Create groups, manage members, share images.
- Comments & Reactions — Comment on recipes and react with emoji reactions.
- Notifications — Activity notifications with pull-to-refresh.
Organization
- Cookbooks — Personal recipe collections you can create, edit, and share.
- Recipe Lists — Curated lists of recipes (kind 30001).
- Bookmarks — Save recipes and articles for later.
- Shopping Lists — Manage grocery lists for meal planning.
- Drafts — Save and manage unpublished article drafts with word count and reading time.
Payments & Wallet
- Lightning Zaps — Support creators directly using Bitcoin Lightning with one-tap zap support.
- Integrated Wallet — Built-in wallet supporting NWC (Nostr Wallet Connect), Spark (Breez SDK), Bitcoin Connect, and WebLN.
- On-Chain Bitcoin — Receive Bitcoin directly to on-chain addresses with deposit claiming.
- Branta Guardrail — Payment address verification so users can confirm they're paying the right recipient.
Membership
- Tiered Membership — Cook, Cook+, Pro Kitchen, and Genesis Founders tiers.
- Member Benefits — Access to gated recipes, group chat, marketplace, AI assistant, and community features.
- Invite Tree — Visual referral and membership tree.
Marketplace
- P2P Marketplace — Browse and list ingredients, kitchen tools, knowledge, and merch.
- Seller Dashboard — Manage your marketplace products.
Kitchen Tools
- Cheffy — your kitchen companion: ask cooking questions, use what you have, fix a mistake, or turn an idea into dinner (membership feature).
- Cooking Timer — Integrated timer widget accessible from the header.
- Unit Converter — Convert between cooking measurement units.
Settings & Personalization
- Theming — Light, dark, and system-preference modes.
- Relay Management — Configure and monitor Nostr relay connections.
- Currency Display — Choose your preferred currency.
- One-Tap Zap — Customize default zap amounts.
Tech Stack
- Frontend: SvelteKit (Svelte 4)
- Protocol: Nostr (NDK, nostr-tools)
- Hosting: Cloudflare Pages
- Auth: NIP-07 (browser extensions), NIP-46 (Nostr Connect), nsec, key generation
- Payments: Bitcoin Lightning (zaps), On-chain Bitcoin
- Wallet: NWC, Spark (Breez SDK), Bitcoin Connect, WebLN
- Verification: Branta Guardrail
- Visualization: D3.js (Mesh network graph)
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