Blink

Blink is an artificial intelligence software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup founded in 2025 by Kai Feng and headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA. The company focuses on democratizing the process of software creation by enabling users, including those without technical backgrounds, to build and deploy fully functional web applications by describing their requirements in plain English. Blink automates key components of application development such as design, database management, backend, authentication, hosting, and publishing, allowing for rapid deployment of apps within minutes.

Emerging from the Y Combinator Winter 2022 batch, Blink addresses longstanding challenges faced by non-technical founders, startups, and small business teams, such as coding barriers and slow iteration cycles. Its AI-powered platform offers a unique workflow that supports instant app generation, real-time collaborative editing, and customization via conversational prompts rather than conventional drag-and-drop interfaces. Its primary product serves small and medium-sized businesses, startups, creators, and no-code enthusiasts by providing a subscription-based model with tiered plans and AI credit-based usage, facilitating faster minimum viable product (MVP) launches and internal tool development projects.

The company operates as an independent entity without subsidiaries or a parent company. While Blink has secured support from Y Combinator as an accelerator and seed investor, other funding details and broader corporate social media presence remain undisclosed or unavailable as of mid-2025.