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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/
  • @mikeisaac Rat King on x
    some jackass took my name on byte so i had to improvise https://twitter.com/...
  • @alexstamos Alex Stamos on x
    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…
  • @dhof Dom Hofmann on x
    byte's out http://byte.co/
  • @dhof Dom Hofmann on x
    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
  • @davidbyttow David Byttow on x
    Love this. Unrelated: Can I bring Secret back now too? https://techcrunch.com/...
  • @fromedome Dan Frommer on x
    Wednesdays off → https://twitter.com/...
  • @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/...
  • @rsg Bobby Goodlatte on x
    Prediction: @byte_app will do extremely well
  • @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/...
  • @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/...
  • @katienotopoulos Katie Notopoulos on x
    follow me im username @marcandreessen 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/...
  • @davegershgorn Dave Gershgorn on x
    gary vee is somewhere already yelling about how people who underestimated byte are losing their shirts 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/...
  • @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/...
  • @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/...
  • @techcrunch @techcrunch on x
    Vine reboot Byte officially launches https://techcrunch.com/... by @joshconstine https://twitter.com/...