SoBrief is the world's largest book summary platform, containing 73,530+ thorough book summaries with audio narration. AI-powered book curation. Supports 40 languages. 100% free to read. No signup is required. Only $4.99/mo for listening.
Hello Product Hunt!
I’m Eric, co-founder of Audioread, which won #1 Product of the Day, Week, and Month.
Now, I'm building SoBrief, and we’re on a mission to make knowledge more accessible.
Books have the power to change lives, but we face three key challenges:
1. Too Many Books: We have more books than we can read. SoBrief acts like a movie trailer for books—helping you decide which ones are worth your time.
2. Retention Struggles: It’s easy to forget what we’ve read. SoBrief provides quick summaries to ensure key takeaways stick with you.
3. Language Barriers: Translating books is expensive. SoBrief bridges global knowledge by making books accessible across languages.
Our goal is to make the world smarter by:
- Keeping summaries free to read (like Wikipedia)
- Offering paid features (like audio narration) to sustain the platform
We’ve built SoBrief in just 16 weeks and would love your feedback:
* What resonates most with you?
* Where can we improve?
* How do you see SoBrief evolving?
Thanks for supporting our mission to unlock knowledge for everyone!
P.S. We offer a 50% commission on all referrals and a 25% discount for the Product Hunt community (PH25, expires 11:59 PM PT Sep. 12).
—Eric
Congratulations on launching! This is great, there are so many books I'd like to read but don't have the time to. And there are so many more that just don't quite make the cut. This is awesome, well done!
Wow, that's exactly something I wanted to try/build myself.
So, how better it is from Blinkist?
This looks amazing, does it have only audio summarization or does it provide text summarization also?
Hey Eric, interesting concept. But isn’t the essence of reading somewhat lost when everything’s condensed, feel like this platform could discourage deep, immersive reading and isnt there a risk of spreading shallow understanding of books, curious to see how this will play out.
Hi, I'd be happy to pop in and see how the whole thing works. Do you also have business books?
Loved it, and shared it with my parents. Hope they'll love it too, great job team!
Sounds cool but kinda overwhelming too, who has time to go through summaries of 73,000 books, maybe focus on quality over quantity and are the AI narrations even any good or just robotic?
I just checked out Sobrief, and I’m impressed—my briefest brief has a brief about its brief! 😂 Seriously, though, how does Sobrief handle those 'brief' moments when you need to be brief about your brief?
I am asking for a friend who briefs too much!
Congrats on the launch! I love the overall UX, but there seems to be room for improvement in the audio playback speed control.
One of the best new products this year, hands down.
If you're into learning or just love books, SoBrief is a must.
Especially for book nerds like me who want quick and easy access to thousands of summaries! 🤩
Congratulations on your launch! @automationist This sounds like a very handy tool that will help people unlock so much wisdom. As a builder in this space myself, I am very excited to see your success on ProductHunt!
This is great! How do you accrue the content of the books to feed into the LLM since you aren't working with publishers directly?
Congrats on your launch! This new app sounds like a game-changer for book lovers! Can't wait to dive in and explore all it has to offer!
super cool that you made this work with many languages and you can listen to them. huge step up from Blinkist!
Nice, just to a yearly plan. Are Android / iOS apps on the roadmap?
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brooooo, this is so sick actually. love the UX and the concept!! also, I can see this as an SEO machineeeee! Do book authors get paid as well or how does that work?
Congrats on the launch, Eric! I was a long-time Blinkist user and loved the mobile app -- hope to be able to use something similar with SoBreif! I spend most of time listening on mobile.
