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Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann launches Byte, a Vine-like short-form video app, on iOS and Android, aims to start its partner program to pay creators “soon”

Two years after Vine's co-founder Dom Hofmann announced he was building a successor to the short-form video app, today Byte makes its debut on iOS and Android.

TechCrunch Josh Constine

Discussion

  • @byte_app Byte on x
    dear friends, today we're bringing back 6-second looping videos and a new community for people who love them. it's called byte and it's both familiar and new. we hope it'll resonate with people who feel something's been missing. http://byte.co/
  • @dhof Dom Hofmann on x
    byte's out http://byte.co/
  • @campuscodi Catalin Cimpanu on x
    Imagine being the Vine founder (and having effectively invented TikTok) and now needing to relaunch your app because Twitter didn't know what to do with it in the first place https://twitter.com/...
  • @joshconstine Josh Constine on x
    Byte will quickly start paying creators, even if it has to use its own funding, @dhof tells me. tip @Techmeme https://techcrunch.com/...
  • @adafruit Adafruit Industries on x
    yay, 6-second looping videos is back with @byte_app https://twitter.com/... & https://apps.apple.com/...
  • @rsg Bobby Goodlatte on x
    Prediction: @byte_app will do extremely well
  • @anildash Anil Dash on x
    Vine was one of the great creative communities in the history of the web. Hopeful Byte can be a worthy successor! https://twitter.com/...
  • @inputmag Input on x
    Byte, Vine's successor and TikTok's next big competition, has finally launched - and it wants to see creators get paid. https://www.inputmag.com/...
  • @davegershgorn Dave Gershgorn on x
    gary vee is somewhere already yelling about how people who underestimated byte are losing their shirts https://twitter.com/...
  • @semil @semil on x
    The excitement & reaction to this reminds me of what fans feel when their favorite artist's new album drops. https://twitter.com/...
  • @nickstatt Nick Statt on x
    I actually claimed @ hotdog. This is the start of my shining social media career. https://twitter.com/...
  • @katienotopoulos Katie Notopoulos on x
    follow me im username @marcandreessen https://twitter.com/...
  • @techcrunch @techcrunch on x
    Vine reboot Byte officially launches https://techcrunch.com/... by @joshconstine https://twitter.com/...
  • @notviking Viking on x
    wait also follow me on byte because this is the first time i've ever got @/viking on anything https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...