Why a Dhanmondi shop owner should hire one developer, not a software house
I'm RH Fardin. I personally build every system I take on.
As the best custom software development company in Dhanmondi for small operators, I know the area is not a head-office zone. It is an operations zone. There are diagnostic centres and clinics off Road 27 and Satmasjid Road. Coaching centres and English-medium schools pack Road 2 and Road 8. Boutiques, salons, dental chambers, cafes and ad agencies fill every other building.
Almost all of them run a real business on tools that fight back. One person guards an Excel file. A hardbound register sits at the front desk. Nobody can balance the cash drawer at night. Patient or student data is scattered across phones. What they really need is not a website. It is custom software that matches exactly how their counter, reception and accounts already work.
Here is the trap most people in Dhanmondi fall into. They ask a software house in Karwan Bazar, or a 'company' on a Mirpur Road signboard. They get quoted four to six lakh and a six-month timeline. They pay the advance and never speak to the real developer again. The salesman who understood the business is gone.
A junior who has never seen the inside of a Dhanmondi diagnostic centre builds something generic. The front-desk staff refuse to use it, and the owner quietly goes back to the register. The software was not bad. Nobody who built it ever watched the work happen.
I do it the other way. I take one project at a time, and I am the only person on it from start to finish. On a Google Meet or WhatsApp video call, your staff walk me through the counter for an hour. I watch how a patient gets registered and how a report gets delivered. I see how a student's fees get marked paid and how your salon books a slot.
Then I write a one-page scope. You approve the screen designs in Figma before I code anything. The person who agreed to that scope builds it. The same person picks up when you message at 10pm. About five years of doing exactly this for Bangladeshi businesses is what 'best' means here. Not a reception desk.
Pricing is plain and quoted in BDT. The smallest job is 50,000 BDT. Light, single-purpose tools and small web apps can fit my 90,000 and 1,50,000 BDT tiers when the scope allows. A true custom software product, with a database, an admin panel, user roles, payment and SMS, starts from 3,00,000 BDT.
It is always 50% advance by bank transfer or bKash, and 50% on launch. You give written design approval before development starts. There is no 'discovery phase' invoice and no maintenance retainer you never agreed to.
See pricing in BDT