One of the former co-founders of Vine, a short-form video hosting service, Dom Hoffman, has just launched a new short form video app named Byte. Byte lets you shoot or upload and then share six-second videos.
Will it be as successful as Vine with competition from the likes of TikTok and other micro-entertainment apps out there?
Hofmann created Vine in 2012 with Colin Kroll and Rus Yusupov but they sold the app to Twitter in 2013 before it was launched. The app grew like wild fire from 2014 to 2015 reaching over 200 million active users. Then suddenly, Twitter killed the app desperate to cut costs.
However Hofmann may have seen this ahead as he had already built the first verison of Byte, which offered more free-form creation.
Hofmaan believes that Byte will differentiate itself by offering content creators the chance to make money directly soon – the other similar apps do not offer this. The app plans to launch a pilot of ts partner program for offering monetization options to popular people on the app.
Byte has the standard social features as its competitors – a feed, Explore page, notifications and profiles. However it does not have the augmented reality features, transition effects and other bonus filters you will find in similar apps like TikTok.
You can download byte now for free on Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.byte…) and iOS (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/byte-creativity-first/id1441800002?ls=1…)
