Gulshan is full of brands that outgrew their Facebook page and paid lakhs for an app nobody downloaded. The hard part was never building the app. It was building one customers keep.
I am RH Fardin, and I work like the best mobile app development company in Gulshan should, minus the layers. I am a senior solo designer and developer. I scope, design, build and ship mobile apps for Gulshan brands end to end. No account manager, no junior pool, no foreign-currency invoice. One person, with about 5 years building real products for BD businesses. App projects start from 50,000 BDT, and full custom builds from 3,00,000 BDT.
Senior solo builder. About 5 years building for BD brands. bKash and Nagad ready. App Store and Play Store listings in your name. 50% advance, 50% on launch.
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Gulshan is home to customer-facing brands. The cafe everyone tags on Instagram. The boutique on a side street off Gulshan 2. The salon and spa with a waitlist, the diagnostic clinic, the gym. The cloud kitchen that started in someone's flat and now does a thousand orders a week. To each owner, the best mobile app development company in Gulshan is the one that asks the hard question first.
At some point, each of these brands hears the same line. 'You've outgrown Facebook. You need an app.' So they sign with an agency and pay two to four lakh. Six months later, the app sits on the Play Store with a couple hundred downloads. It has a one-star review from a customer whose order never updated. The app exists. Nobody opens it.
The right builder is not the one with the biggest portfolio wall. It is the one that asks: will your customers really keep this on their home screen? Or are you about to spend a lakh on a brochure with a login screen?
I am RH Fardin, a designer and developer who has worked solo for about five years. I will be straight with you in a way an agency selling a fixed package never will. Most 'app' briefs from Gulshan brands do not need a full native app at all. A restaurant that wants online ordering. A boutique that wants a loyalty card. A clinic that wants appointment booking.
For most of those, a fast Progressive Web App or a clean hybrid build works better. It gets more real usage, launches in a fraction of the time, and costs a third of the native quote. The brands that truly need native are a smaller group. They need heavy offline use, deep device features, or real-time at scale. I tell them so on the first call. I am also honest about whether the job fits one senior builder or needs a bigger team.
Here is the comparison nobody in a Gulshan glass-walled office will give you. A typical Dhaka app agency quote starts around 2 to 4 lakh and climbs. You pay for layers: a sales lead, an account manager, a project manager, two juniors doing the work, and a senior who reviews now and then. With me, that whole stack becomes one experienced person.
My standard tiers run 50,000, 90,000 and 1,50,000 BDT, with 50,000 BDT the floor for the smallest job. Serious custom builds start at 3,00,000 BDT, and most truly native apps fall there. You pay for one senior brain that designs and codes your product. Not for everyone the agency has to keep busy.
Pricing is in taka, and it does not move once we sign. Every project runs 50% advance and 50% on launch, by bank transfer, bKash or Nagad. You get a proper invoice, never a USD rate surprise. Nothing gets coded until you approve the screens in Figma. That is my design-approval guarantee. If the design never lands right, you can walk away, with your advance covering the design work used. At launch, the app, source code and customer data are all yours.
Six things a Gulshan brand really gets from me. I picked them because they are exactly where the last app went wrong. All are standard, from the entry build to the full custom app.
I design for the one thing that decides if an app survives in Dhaka. Does the customer reopen it next week? Onboarding, speed and a reason to return come before feature count, every time.
In the first 20 minutes, I tell you if your idea is a real app, a PWA, or a website with a great mobile UX. Most Gulshan brands get quoted for the most expensive option and pay twice.
I have wired bKash, Nagad, Rocket, SSLCommerz and AamarPay into live products. I know which gateway drops on which carrier. No 'we'll figure out payments in sprint three' after your advance clears.
The app goes live under your own Apple Developer and Google Play accounts, not the vendor's. You keep the listing, the reviews and the ranking, even if you never work with me again.
Your customers use mid-range Androids and 4G that drops in a CNG. I design and test for that. Not for a fast MacBook in a quiet Gulshan boardroom where every app feels smooth.
One number on the quote, in taka, locked after scoping. 50% advance, 50% on launch. No padded hours, no 'out of scope' emails, and no surprise invoice on the day you go live.
Most Gulshan brands walk straight into a quiet trap, and it has nothing to do with code quality. The agency publishes your app under its own Apple Developer and Google Play accounts. It keeps the backend on its server and holds the customer database. That feels handy at first, since you did not want to deal with Apple's account setup anyway.
A year later, you want to switch developers, or you stop paying the monthly 'maintenance.' Then you learn the truth. The listing, with all your reviews and ranking, belongs to them. Your customer data sits in their database. Moving means starting downloads from zero. For a Gulshan brand, users and reviews are worth more than the app itself. I work the opposite way. Your app ships under your accounts, and the backend and database are yours. On launch day, you get the source code, server logins and a clean handover.
Second, plainly, because Gulshan buyers usually get sold the dream, not the math. An app is not a marketing campaign. It is a product your customers must choose to keep. Top-ranked agencies quote the biggest native build with the longest feature list, because that is the largest invoice. But features do not get an app reopened. A boutique customer keeps an app because loyalty points are right there and checkout takes ten seconds. A clinic patient keeps it because booking beats calling a busy front desk.
A restaurant regular keeps it because reordering last week's meal is two taps, with bKash linked. That is design and judgment, not raw engineering scale. It is where one senior who has shipped real BD products beats a junior team grinding through a spec. So test any app company in Gulshan with two questions. 'Whose name is the Play Store listing under?' And 'can I see a live app real Bangladeshi customers use today?' Vague answers filter themselves out fast. You can check my work at rhfardin.com.
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The real questions Gulshan brand owners send me in the first message. Answered straight, with no sales fog.
Honest ranges: a PWA or simple hybrid wrapper for ordering, booking or a loyalty card often fits my 90,000 to 1,50,000 BDT tiers. 50,000 BDT is the floor for the smallest job. A custom hybrid app with bKash or Nagad, customer accounts and an admin dashboard starts at 3,00,000 BDT. A full native app from a real team runs higher, and I say so upfront. The price depends on payments, accounts, and iOS plus Android. A 25,000 BDT 'Play Store app' is a broken WebView that earns one-star reviews.
Most Gulshan brands I talk to do not need full native. Think of restaurant ordering, a boutique loyalty app, or a clinic booking tool. These usually get more real use as a fast PWA or a clean hybrid build. It launches in weeks, not months, at a fraction of the native cost. Native earns its price when you need heavy offline use, deep device features, or real-time at scale. On the first 20-minute call, I will tell you which camp you are in. I will not push the expensive option.
You, always. The app goes live under your own Apple Developer account, the $99 a year one, in your business name. It also uses your own Google Play Console account. The reviews, ranking and listing are your asset, not mine. If you do not have those accounts yet, I set them up with you, in your name from day one. So you can switch developers next year without losing downloads, reviews or store position. I have seen too many Gulshan brands trapped because the agency kept the listing.
Often, yes. The fix is usually not 'more features.' Send me the live app and any access. I will tell you honestly where the problem sits. It might be the product: slow, confusing onboarding and no reason to return. It might be the launch: nobody knew to download it. Or it might be the build. Sometimes I rework onboarding and the core flow, and usage climbs. Sometimes the base is too tangled, and rebuilding costs less than patching. Either way, you get a straight answer before you spend more.
A PWA or simple hybrid app takes about 3 to 5 weeks from advance to launch. A custom hybrid app with payments, customer accounts and an admin dashboard takes 8 to 12 weeks. Full custom native builds take 12 weeks and up, planned sprint by sprint. The first 7 to 10 days are Figma designs and the data flow you sign off. The build clock starts once your advance clears and you approve the screens. A real custom app in two weeks means a reskinned template with no testing.
Yes, everything is in taka. You pay 50% advance to start and 50% on launch, by bank transfer, bKash or Nagad, with a proper invoice. No USD quotes, no PayPal, and no 'today's exchange rate' surprises. For your customers' payments inside the app, I wire in bKash, Nagad, Rocket or a card gateway like SSLCommerz. They pay the way Dhaka really pays. Not through a foreign checkout that half your users abandon.
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