In 2012, Wang and Anderson came up with the idea for a convention-like community while attending an anime convention in Boston, Massachusetts.

[2] Later that year, they would release two apps revolving around K-pop and photography that allowed fans of those subjects to chat freely.

[citation needed] Amino received 1.65 million dollars of seed funding in 2014, primarily from Union Ventures.

Some additional seed investors include Google Ventures, SV Angel, Box Group, and other interested parties.

[5] Fandoms had migrated from websites like Facebook and Reddit to Amino, partly because of the app's mobile-native experience.

[6] In July of the same year, ACM, an app that allowed users to create their own communities, was launched.

Sophie Feher's "The Reef," a comedy featuring an aspiring marine biologist meeting a merman, premiered on December 27 alongside "Princely," an LGBT fairy tale created by Matt Bruneau-Richardson of Tiny Siren Animation.

[17][18][19] "Spaced Out," an alien abduction comedy by Michael Jae, and YouTuber Alex Clark's "Wyndvania II" premiered on December 28.

[20][21] Mysie Pereira's fairy tale "Turned to Stone" and Marcin Pawlowski's "Stranded" premiered on December 29, 2019.

[29] ACM also allows moderation to customize community descriptions, pick leaders, change language settings, create a tagline for the community, change the home page lay out, alter the side navigation menu, and more.

[34] If guidelines are broken, a leader may disable content or impose a warning, strike, or ban, depending on the severity of the infringement.

[36][37] A warning is a message informing the user that they have violated a guideline and may face further punishment unless they change their behaviour.