Most Gulshan head offices don't need a fancier website. They need the one internal process that still runs on Excel and WhatsApp to finally have real software.
I am RH Fardin — a senior solo developer who scopes, builds and ships custom software for Gulshan businesses end to end. No sales engineer, no junior dev pool, no foreign-currency invoice. One operator, around 5 years building real systems for BD companies. Internal tools from 50,000 BDT, full custom software from 3,00,000 BDT.
Senior solo operator. ~5 years building custom software for BD businesses. bKash/Nagad-ready. 50% advance, 50% on launch. You own the source code.
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Gulshan is where the decision-makers sit — the buying-house director, the bank's ops head, the distributor's GM, the clinic's managing partner. It is also where I hear the same confession most often: 'We already paid a company for this. It is half-built and nobody touches it anymore.' A Gulshan office signs with a slick vendor, gets a discovery deck and a Gantt chart, pays the advance, and eighteen months later still runs the actual work on a shared Excel sheet and a WhatsApp group called 'Daily Update'. The software exists somewhere on a staging link nobody logs into. The best custom software development company in Gulshan, for that buyer, is not the one that pitches the grandest roadmap — it is the one that ships the boring 80% they use every day, and ships it this quarter.
There is a second Gulshan-specific trap: the quote in dollars. Because so many companies here deal with foreign principals, embassies and multinationals, vendors learn they can price software like a Dubai or Singapore shop — five lakh becomes a 'starting point,' then it is 'plus 20% annual license,' then 'integration is a separate phase.' You are paying head-office rates for a tool that, stripped of the theatre, is a database, a few user roles, an admin panel and some reports. I quote in taka, for the thing you actually need, and I tell you plainly when your scope genuinely is big enough to need a larger team — I would rather lose the project than oversell you a system I cannot ship well alone.
Around 5 years of building custom software for Bangladeshi businesses has pointed me at a specific zone, and it happens to be exactly what most Gulshan offices need internally: order and distributor management, inventory and stock movement, HR and payroll, clinic and chamber appointment systems, service-ticket and complaint tracking, approval workflows, and reporting dashboards a director can actually read. Systems with one to five user roles, a clean admin panel, role-based permissions, SMS or email alerts, and bKash or Nagad where money moves. That is custom software development Gulshan BD companies use to stop double-entering data, not a 200-screen ERP for a 6,000-person factory. If your scope truly is the latter, I will say so on the first call.
Pricing is in BDT and it does not move once we sign. A genuine custom software product — database, admin panel, user roles, the works — starts at 3,00,000 BDT. A focused internal tool or single-workflow web app often fits my tiered builds at 50,000, 90,000 or 1,50,000 BDT, with 50,000 BDT the floor for the smallest engagement. Every project runs 50% advance and 50% on launch, by bank transfer, bKash or Nagad. Nothing gets coded until you approve the screens and the data flow — the design-approval guarantee — and on launch day the source code, database and server access are yours. No annual license you did not ask for, no lock-in dressed up as 'support.'
Six things a Gulshan head office actually gets from me — chosen because they are exactly what the last vendor failed to deliver. All standard, from the entry tool to the full custom build.
I build the part your staff use every single day first, then stop. No eighteen-month roadmap that dies at the demo stage — a working tool replacing the Excel sheet by the agreed launch date.
No dollar-priced 'enterprise' theatre and no surprise annual license. You pay BDT for a database, roles, admin panel and reports — the thing your office needs, not the vendor's revenue model.
The person who scopes your workflow is the person who writes the code and answers when something breaks. Your requirements never get lost across a sales-PM-junior handoff chain.
Sitting on a half-built system from a vendor who vanished? I can review what exists, tell you honestly if it is salvageable, and either finish it or rebuild the core cleanly.
Your GM or MD does not want a SQL export. Dashboards and summaries are built so a Gulshan decision-maker reads stock, sales, attendance or tickets at a glance, on a phone, in seconds.
On launch you get the full source code, the database and the server credentials. Hire an in-house developer next year and hand it over — nothing is held hostage, ever.
Walk through a few floors in Gulshan and you will find the same ghost in most offices: a custom software project that was approved with great enthusiasm, consumed an advance, and quietly faded. The cause is rarely bad coding. It is scope theatre — the vendor's incentive is to sell the biggest possible system, so the proposal balloons to forty screens nobody asked for, the timeline stretches past anyone's patience, and the senior who pitched it is pulled onto the next sale while juniors grind through features the client will never open. The system is technically 'in progress' forever, which is a very comfortable place for a vendor to park a paid project. I work the opposite way. Before I quote, I sit with the people who do the work — the storekeeper, the order-entry clerk, the accounts assistant — and find the one or two workflows that actually hurt. I scope those tightly into a one-page document you sign, build them, launch them, and let your team feel a real win before we even discuss phase two. A small system people use beats a grand system people avoid, every time.
The other thing I will say plainly, because Gulshan buyers are too polite to hear it elsewhere: the dollar quote is usually a confidence trick on the location, not a reflection of the work. Your office deals with foreign principals, so a vendor assumes you will accept foreign pricing and a foreign-style license model. But a distributor order system or a clinic appointment tool is the same engineering whether the client's address is Gulshan 2 or Bogura — a database, sensible user roles, a clean admin panel, payment integration where money moves, and reports a director trusts. I have no Gulshan-tower rent and no offshore principal to mark up to, so I price the engineering, in taka, and I put senior attention on it because there is no junior bench to feed. That is the honest reason I can call myself one of the best custom software development choices in Gulshan: not a bigger logo, but a model where the experienced person builds the thing and you keep it. When you compare the best custom software development company Gulshan has on offer, ask one question — 'Who, by name, writes my code, and can I see something they shipped that real staff use daily?' The vague answers filter themselves out fast.
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The actual questions Gulshan business owners and ops heads send me in the first message — answered straight, no sales fog.
A real custom software product — database, admin panel, user roles and at least one integration — starts at 3,00,000 BDT. A focused internal tool or single-workflow web app often fits my tiered builds at 50,000, 90,000 or 1,50,000 BDT, and 50,000 BDT is the floor for the smallest engagement. The exact number depends on how many user roles, which integrations (bKash, Nagad, SMS, accounting), and whether you also need mobile apps. I give a fixed taka price after one scoping call — never a dollar figure that grows a phase at a time.
Often, yes. Send me access to whatever exists — the code repository, the staging link, the database — and I will review it and tell you honestly whether it is worth finishing or cleaner to rebuild the core. Sometimes 60% is genuinely usable and I complete it; sometimes the foundation is so tangled that rescuing it costs more than starting right. Either way you get a straight answer before you spend more, not another optimistic roadmap.
Because the firm's quote is usually paying for the address and the staff floor, and their senior — the one who pitched you in the glass room — moves to the next sale once your advance clears. The work then drops to juniors. With me, the person who scopes is the person who codes and the person who picks up the phone when something breaks. Judge it on what you can see: ask me to show you a system real staff log into every day, and verify my work at rhfardin.com.
Because your software is built and run in Bangladesh, for a Bangladeshi business, by me. A distributor order system or an HR tool is the same engineering regardless of your office address — there is no honest reason to price it in USD with a foreign-style annual license bolted on. I quote BDT, fixed after scoping, 50% advance and 50% on launch. The only time a bigger budget is real is if your scope genuinely needs a large team, and I will tell you that openly rather than dress it up.
A focused internal tool typically launches in 4 to 8 weeks; a fuller custom system runs 8 to 12 weeks from contract to go-live. Roughly: week 1-2 is sitting with your staff and producing Figma designs and a data flow you approve, the middle weeks are development, then your team tests on a staging server, and the final stretch is bug fixes, training and launch. Anyone in Gulshan promising a real custom system in two weeks is reskinning a template or skipping the testing you will pay for later.
You own it, completely. On launch day I hand over the full source code pushed to your own GitHub or Bitbucket, a database backup, server access and basic documentation. There is no forced annual license and no maintenance retainer you did not agree to. If you bring on an in-house developer next year and want to stop working with me, they will have everything they need from day one — that is the point.
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