Dom Hofmann
American programmer
Dominik Hofmann (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.
Career
Vine
In June 2012, Hofmann co-founded Vine, which was a 6-second video service with Rus Yusupov and Colin Kroll. Twitter acquired the app in 2012 for $30 million and the app was shut down by Twitter in 2016. During the shutdown process, Hofmann went public with his disagreement on how Vine was handled.
Peach
In January 2016, Hofmann introduced Peach at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The app received major media attention until Hofmann began to focus less on the app and more on other projects. In February 2019, Peach began looking for a benefactor to support upkeep and server costs of Peach. As of February 2024, Peach's domain registration for their website home page (peach.cool) expired and was hijacked by another buyer. This buyer posted an announcement on the peach.cool website falsely claiming to have acquired Peach.
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