Why Banani brands hire me instead of the agency two doors down
In Banani you can throw a stone and hit a web agency. That is exactly why people end up with me.
Banani is the one part of Dhaka where the web agencies actually sit — Kemal Ataturk Avenue, Road 11, the towers around Banani 11 are full of them. So a Banani brand owner has the opposite problem to everyone else in the city: not too few options, too many, all quoting two-and-a-half to four lakh, all sending a polished sales lead who you never see again once the contract is signed. You meet the senior in the pitch. A junior you never met builds your store. The bKash integration breaks the week after launch and now you are a ticket in a queue.
I am the other end of that spectrum on purpose. I am RH Fardin, a solo website designer and developer, and I personally do everything — the design in Figma, the code, the bKash and Nagad setup, the card gateway, the launch. The person who answers your first WhatsApp message is the person inside your store admin at 11pm. For a Banani buyer that matters more than it sounds, because your customer is not a bargain hunter. They are buying a 6,000-taka kurti, an 18,000-taka pair of shoes, a salon package, a cake for a Gulshan birthday — and if your store looks cheaper than your shop on Road 11, you have already lost the sale.
Banani selling has its own shape. A real chunk of your buyers will pay by card or bKash, not only cash on delivery, because the average order value is higher and the buyer is often a working professional, an expat, or someone ordering for a family member abroad. They shop on an iPhone or a recent Android, they care how the product photos render, and they will compare your store against the Instagram shop they follow in the same thirty seconds. A template store that looks fine for a Mirpur grocery brand will quietly underperform here. The build has to carry the brand, not just list products.
Pricing is posted and honest — no "let me prepare a custom enterprise quote" theatre. 50,000 BDT for a tight starter store, 90,000 BDT for a proper catalog with bKash, Nagad, card and COD wired in, 1,50,000 BDT for an established Banani brand that needs a stronger visual identity, variants, inventory and a polished checkout, and from 3,00,000 BDT when the build is genuinely custom — multi-vendor, ERP sync, membership, custom dashboards. Fifty percent advance via bKash or bank, fifty on launch. No surprise maintenance invoice three months later.
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