S1E14 - Cooking with Zaps: Nostr Talk w/ Seth

In this episode, I sit down with Seth, the builder behind Zap Cooking, to unpack how a simple idea—sharing recipes on Nostr—grew into a full-stack, food-first social experience with zaps, a built-in self-custody wallet, social feeds, AI cooking tools, and a peer‑to‑peer marketplace. We trace the project’s roots from early “Nostr Cooking” experiments to today’s Zap Cooking at zap.cooking, talk through why value-for-value matters, and how Bitcoin-native payments are changing what it means to “like” something online. We also explore onboarding and UX lessons from the wider Nostr ecosystem, wallet and zap UX (NIP‑57), and the...