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.
Dhanmondi is not a corporate-headquarters area, it is an operations area. Diagnostic centres and clinics off Road 27 and Satmasjid Road, coaching centres and English-medium schools packed into Road 2 and Road 8, boutiques, salons, dental chambers, cafes and ad agencies in every other building. Almost all of them are running a real business on tools that fight back: an Excel file that one person guards, a hardbound register at the front desk, a cash drawer nobody can reconcile at night, and patient or student data scattered across phones. The thing they actually need is not a website. It is custom software that matches exactly how their counter, their reception and their 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, get quoted four to six lakh and a six-month timeline, pay the advance, and then never speak to the actual 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, start to finish. I will come to your Dhanmondi premises, sit at the counter for an hour, and watch how a patient gets registered, how a report gets delivered, how a student's fees get marked paid, how your salon books a slot.
Then I write a one-page scope, you approve the screen designs in Figma before I code anything, and the person who agreed to that scope is the person who builds it and the person who picks up when you message at 10pm. Around 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 engagement is 50,000 BDT. Lightweight, single-purpose tools and small web apps can fit my 90,000 and 1,50,000 BDT tiers when the scope allows. A genuine custom software product, meaning a database, an admin panel, user roles, payment and SMS, starts from 3,00,000 BDT. Always 50% advance by bank transfer or bKash, 50% on launch, with written design approval before development. No 'discovery phase' invoice, no maintenance retainer you never agreed to.
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