Vine successor may arrive this summer with focus on community building
Dom Hofmann, one of the co-founders of shortform video platform Vine, has been hard at work on a successor to the now-defunct mobile app he’s simply calling just v2. Since announcing his intentions at the end of November “without a plan” and to “force the issue,” former Vine fans, users, and those who just want to see the app’s more innocent and comedic spirit resurrected have offered feedback and seemingly endless enthusiasm for the project.
Hofmann, whose day job includes running a secretive virtual reality startup called Interspace, seems to be developing v2 on his own time, but that hasn’t stopped him from delivering near-daily updates via Twitter. The creator also opened a community forum for the product in early January, and he’s…