Vine cofounder finally releases his next viral video app: Byte

If you're still mourning the loss of Vine, you now have a new video app to fill the void and, no, I'm not talking about TikTok.

That's because Vine cofounder Dom Hofmann is finally launching byte, the video app that's meant to be a successor to the video app that was mercilessly killed by Twitter in 2016. Hofmann has been teasing the app, which he has described as a "follow-up" to Vine, since 2017, though the self-funded project has run into delays.

"Today we’re bringing back 6-second looping videos and a new community for people who love them," the company wrote on Twitter. "It’s called byte and it’s both familiar and new. We hope it’ll resonate with people who feel something’s been missing." Read more...