Apps don’t need finances to survive. The creator of the app could be working on it entirely because they want to, and not because they get paid. As far as I know, NewPipe is just a front-end. It doesn’t host anything, and just runs as a client to essentially give a new interfwce to YouTube.
How does this app survive economically?
Most open source projects are not financially driven. The bigger projects, such as this, usually function like non-profit organizations.
https://newpipe-ev.de/
Apps don’t need finances to survive. The creator of the app could be working on it entirely because they want to, and not because they get paid. As far as I know, NewPipe is just a front-end. It doesn’t host anything, and just runs as a client to essentially give a new interfwce to YouTube.
It seems to do some transcoding and storage. I suspect there are cpu and database costs that aren’t free.
Labor of love, I suspect