Vine successor Byte is available now on iOS and Android
Dom Hofmann, the co-creator of Vine who has been quietly working on a successor to the short-form video platform, says the new app, called Byte, is available now on iOS and Android.
Hofmann has been developing Byte on and off since 2015, and last we heard from him in an official capacity about the app’s launch (he’s been regularly dropping updates in the app’s rather active online forum) was in November 2018, when Hofmann said it would be arriving in the spring of the following year.
So it looks like Hofmann missed that deadline. But it’s out now and longtime fans of Vine, which Twitter unceremoniously shut down in 2017, will probably be happy just to have anything that resembles the defunct platform’s short-lived but profoundly impactful creative spirit. We’ll have to see whether TikTok users give Byte a chance, and if the app can live up to the hype.
Dom Hofmann, the co-creator of Vine who has been quietly working on a successor to the short-form video platform, says the new app, called Byte, is available now on iOS and Android. Hofmann has been developing Byte on and off since 2015, and last we heard from him in an…
