Why a Dhanmondi business should hire one developer, not an app house
I'm RH Fardin. The person who pitches your app is the person who ships it.
Picture Satmasjid Road on a Thursday evening, with every business fighting for the same phone screen. Diagnostic centres off Road 27 want patients to book tests and pull reports. Coaching centres on Road 2 and Road 8 want parents to track attendance and fees. Restaurants and cafes want their own ordering instead of paying foodpanda a cut. Boutiques and salons want a booking and loyalty app. The best mobile app development company in Dhanmondi has to serve all of them honestly.
Almost all of them have heard the same line from someone on Mirpur Road: 'you need an app.' Almost none were first asked the only question that matters. Will their customer really install it? That question is where I start. It is the difference between an app that earns its 3,00,000 taka and an app that gets two downloads and dies.
Here is the honest truth about app buyers in Dhanmondi. Your customer already lives inside three apps on her phone: Facebook, WhatsApp and bKash. Asking her to download, sign up and remember one more app is a real cost. A generic app house in Dhaka will never tell you that, because the full native build is its biggest invoice. So before I quote, I tell you straight which of three things you really need.
For most Dhanmondi clinics, shops and restaurants, a Progressive Web App works best. It opens from a link and installs from Chrome in one tap, with no Play Store download. It converts far better than a native app nobody finds. A native or hybrid app makes sense with daily repeat use, loyalty, push alerts and a base that returns weekly. A few of you need that. Most need the PWA and a strong booking flow. I'll say so on the first call, even though it's the smaller invoice.
I work solo and take one project at a time. So the person who understands your business is never swapped for a junior you never meet. That is the trap most Dhanmondi owners fall into. A software house gives a lovely demo and takes the advance. Then a developer who has never seen inside a Dhanmondi diagnostic centre builds something generic. The owner quietly goes back to phone calls and a register.
With me, you get one senior brain from scope to launch. On a Google Meet walk-through, I learn how your reception or your kitchen really works. I write a one-page scope. You sign off every screen in Figma before I write any production code. About five years of building this kind of thing for Bangladeshi businesses is what 'best' means here. It is not the size of an office or a wall of stock-photo awards.
Pricing is plain and always in BDT, never a USD figure you must convert at today's rate. The smallest job is 50,000 BDT. A tight booking PWA or a focused single-purpose app can fit my 90,000 and 1,50,000 BDT tiers when the scope is clean. A true custom mobile app starts from 3,00,000 BDT and is scoped sprint by sprint. That means real accounts, a backend, an admin panel, bKash or Nagad payments and push notifications.
It is always 50% advance by bank transfer or bKash and 50% on launch. You give written design approval before development begins. There is no padded 'discovery phase' bill, no maintenance retainer you never agreed to, and no surprise change order the week you go live.
See pricing in BDT