Shipping FreeSay to 2GB-RAM Phones: What We Cut, What We Kept

I built FreeSay — an AI-powered speaking tutor — and a surprising amount of engineering time went into making it run well on cheap phones. This post is about what got cut and what survived, targeting devices with 2GB of RAM and flaky connections. Why this matters Most of FreeSay's audience lives in markets where the median phone is not flagship-class. If the app chokes on a Samsung A03 or a Redmi 9A, we lose the exact users we were built for. So "runs on 2GB" was a hard constraint from day one,