In focus
Where your taka actually goes (and where it doesn't)
When people ask why one developer can be cheaper than an agency for the same quality, the honest answer is structure. An agency quote has to cover an office in Gulshan or Banani, an account manager, a sales team's commission, designers and developers who each take a slice, and a profit margin on top of all of it. You're not just paying for your website - you're paying for the building it was made in. With me, almost none of that exists.
The money you pay goes into the actual work: the design, the code, the testing on real devices, and the launch. That's the entire reason affordable web development from a solo senior developer can match agency quality without the agency price.
It also means there's a real floor below which I won't go, and you should be glad there is. My pricing starts at 50,000 BDT, with tiers at 50,000, 90,000 and 1,50,000 BDT, and fully custom builds from 3,00,000 BDT. If someone quotes you 15,000 BDT for a 'professional website', they are either selling you a free template with your logo dropped on it or planning to vanish after the advance.
A site that's genuinely built - fast, mobile-ready, structured for search, and supported by the person who made it - has a minimum honest cost, and I'd rather tell you that floor up front than pretend it doesn't exist. Advance is paid by bKash or Nagad to get started; the balance is due on launch, once you've seen the finished site working.