Dominik Hofmann[1] (born September 27, 1986) is an American entrepreneur and programmer. He is best known for being one of the co-founders of Vine as well as being the creator of Peach, Byte and Loot.[2]
In June 2012, Hofmann co-founded Vine, which was a 6-second video service with Rus Yusupov and Colin Kroll.[3]Twitter acquired the app in 2012 for $30 million[4] and the app was shut down by Twitter in 2016.[5][6] During the shutdown process, Hofmann went public with his disagreement on how Vine was handled.[7]
In January 2016, Hofmann introduced Peach at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.[8] The app received major media attention until Hofmann began to focus less on the app and more on other projects.[9][10]
Byte (formerly dubbed v2) is a 16-second looping video app.[11][12] The app's purpose is to be the successor app to Vine after its original shutdown. Hofmann was public with his disagreement on how Vine was handled.[13] He has stated the project will be "personally funded"[14] and was released for iOS and Android on January 24, 2020.[15]
Personal life
Hofmann was born in 1986. He has a younger brother and met Rus Yusupov and Colin Kroll while working at Jetsetter.[16]
