Cooking with Zaps: Nostr Talk w/ Seth
From Fundamentals of Fundamentals by Fundamentals
March 28, 2026 · 1h 6m · Season 1 · Episode 14
About this episode
The episode features a discussion with Seth about the evolution of Zap Cooking and its impact on social experiences and Bitcoin payments.
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 realities of funding community projects without getting captured by ads or platforms. Along the way we touch on Primal, Damus, Alby, Breez SDK, and more; the role of meetups like Bitcoin Park; and why building sustainable businesses—memberships, marketplaces, and real products—matters if we want this new internet to last. 'Zap Cooking': https://zap.cooking 'NIP-57 (Zaps)': https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/57.md 'Damus (Nostr iOS client)': https://damus.io 'Primal (Nostr client)': https://primal.net 'Alby (Lightning wallet/extension)'…
People in this episode
Host: Fundamentals
Guest: Seth
Topics covered
- cooking
- social media
- Bitcoin payments
- community projects
- user experience
- peer-to-peer marketplace
Keywords
- Zap Cooking
- Nostr
- Bitcoin
- social feeds
- AI cooking tools
- peer-to-peer marketplace
- community funding
- user experience
- NIP-57
- Damus
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Zap Cooking, Nostr, Bitcoin Park, Damus, Primal, Alby, Breez SDK, GratefulDay, SoberKey, Magic Internet Math
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