What is Blinkist?

Blinkist is a book-summarization subscription service based in Berlin, Germany. The company was founded in 2012 by Holger Seim and Sebastian Klein, the company now boasts 18 million users.

Blinkist provides its customers with summaries of over 3,000 non-fiction books. Each of these summaries come in 15-minute reads which are known as "Blinks" Blinkist was also a big hit on Product Hunt, earning the following:

• #1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt on November 27, 2013
• #1 Product of the Week on Product Hunt on November 27, 2013
• #1 Product of the Month on Product Hunt for November 2013