26: Zapstore w/ Franzap
Published: May 31, 2026
Duration: 1:07:48
"The user joins the community, and the community does a lot of the heavy lifting."
Franzap & Gigi take a walk in Oslo.
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In this dialogue:
How Zapstore grew out of the first Sovereign Engineering cohort in Madeira, earlier experiments like ZapThreads, and Franzap's frustration with closed mobile app stores Why Ninite, app stacks, and curated discovery mattered as much as the raw "permissionless app store" idea What it means to run Zapstore as a real marketplace: breaking the chicken-and-egg problem by pre-populating supply, signing apps under the Zapstore...