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
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Discussion
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@byte_app
Byte
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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/
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@mikeisaac
Rat King
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some jackass took my name on byte so i had to improvise https://twitter.com/...
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@alexstamos
Alex Stamos
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Somebody also registered my Twitter handle on Byte with a generic headshot and no content. If I was a spammer I would register every checkmark Twitter handle to sell or spam later. Bootstrapping a trustworthy namespace on a social network in 2020 is going to be really tough. http…
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@dhof
Dom Hofmann
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byte's out http://byte.co/
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@dhof
Dom Hofmann
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hiring for byte! backend eng (go + gcloud, but stack experience doesn't matter) iOS eng (swift) Android eng (kotlin!) wednesdays off. onsite in nyc or remote. will post real listings this week, but email me at dom at byte co if interested in the mean time
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@davidbyttow
David Byttow
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Love this. Unrelated: Can I bring Secret back now too? https://techcrunch.com/...
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@fromedome
Dan Frommer
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Wednesdays off → https://twitter.com/...
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@campuscodi
Catalin Cimpanu
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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/...
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@rsg
Bobby Goodlatte
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Prediction: @byte_app will do extremely well
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@semil
@semil
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The excitement & reaction to this reminds me of what fans feel when their favorite artist's new album drops. https://twitter.com/...
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@notviking
Viking
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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/...
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@katienotopoulos
Katie Notopoulos
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follow me im username @marcandreessen https://twitter.com/...
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@nickstatt
Nick Statt
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I actually claimed @ hotdog. This is the start of my shining social media career. https://twitter.com/...
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@davegershgorn
Dave Gershgorn
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gary vee is somewhere already yelling about how people who underestimated byte are losing their shirts https://twitter.com/...
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@inputmag
Input
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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/...
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@joshconstine
Josh Constine
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Byte will quickly start paying creators, even if it has to use its own funding, @dhof tells me. tip @Techmeme https://techcrunch.com/...
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@adafruit
Adafruit Industries
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yay, 6-second looping videos is back with @byte_app https://twitter.com/... & https://apps.apple.com/...
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@anildash
Anil Dash
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Vine was one of the great creative communities in the history of the web. Hopeful Byte can be a worthy successor! https://twitter.com/...
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@techcrunch
@techcrunch
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Vine reboot Byte officially launches https://techcrunch.com/... by @joshconstine https://twitter.com/...