Most Gulshan offices don't need another website. They need the dashboard, the portal or the internal tool that ten people open every morning to finally exist as real software instead of a shared Excel sheet and three WhatsApp groups.
I am RH Fardin — a senior solo developer who scopes, designs, builds and ships web applications 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. Focused web apps from 50,000 BDT, full custom multi-role applications from 3,00,000 BDT.
Senior solo operator. ~5 years building web apps for BD businesses. Runs in the browser on any device. bKash/Nagad-ready. 50% advance, 50% on launch. You own the source code.
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Here is the scene I walk into most often in a Gulshan office. The director pulls up a report — except it is not a report, it is the ops assistant exporting a Google Sheet, cleaning it by hand, and pasting it into an email twice a week. Three departments keep three versions of the same customer list. Someone is paying a foreign SaaS tool in dollars, per user, per month, for 60% of features nobody touches, and renewals quietly climb every year. None of this is a website problem. It is a web application problem — and a web application is exactly the thing most Gulshan businesses have never been offered straight, because the vendors who rank for it would rather sell a 200-screen platform than the focused tool that actually removes the daily pain.
I am RH Fardin, a Dhaka-based developer running solo for about five years. A web app, to be clear about what I mean, is software that lives in the browser — your team logs in from a laptop in the Gulshan office, a phone in a client meeting, or a branch in Uttara, and they all see the same live data with no install, no APK to sideload, no 'which version are you on?' A customer portal, a distributor order-entry system, an internal CRM, an inventory and stock dashboard, an HR and leave tracker, a service-ticket queue, a reporting screen a managing director reads on their phone between meetings — that is the work. One to five user roles, role-based permissions, a clean admin panel, and bKash or Nagad wired in where money actually moves.
The reason a Gulshan office ends up at a solo developer is usually the second quote. The first vendor — a firm on Gulshan Avenue with a glass meeting room — sends a number in USD, with an annual license bolted on and 'integration' priced as a separate phase, because companies here deal with foreign principals and embassies, and vendors have learned the address will tolerate foreign pricing. Strip away the theatre and your web app is a database, a few roles, an admin panel and some reports. I quote that in taka, fixed after one scoping call, and I put senior attention on every screen because there is no junior bench I need to keep busy. If your scope genuinely needs a ten-person team and a nine-month roadmap, I will tell you on the first call and refer you out — I would rather lose the project than oversell a system I cannot ship well alone.
Pricing is in BDT and it does not move once we sign. A focused single-purpose web app — one role, a couple of core screens, the kind of thing that replaces one painful Excel workflow — fits my tiered builds at 50,000, 90,000 or 1,50,000 BDT, with 50,000 BDT the floor for the smallest engagement. A genuine custom multi-role application — multiple logins, permissions, payment integration, real reporting — starts at 3,00,000 BDT. 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 in Figma — that is the design-approval guarantee — and on launch day the source code, the database and the server credentials are yours. No annual license you did not ask for, no lock-in wearing a 'support' costume.
Six things a Gulshan business actually gets from me — picked because they are exactly what a browser-based web app should deliver and what the last vendor over-priced or skipped. All standard, from the entry tool to the full custom build.
Your team opens the same web app from an office laptop, a phone in a client meeting, or a branch in Banani — same live data, no install, no version chaos. That is the whole point of building it for the browser.
One database, one source of truth, role-based access. No more three departments maintaining three versions of the same list and arguing over which export is current.
Stop paying per-seat in dollars for a foreign tool you half-use. A web app you own has no monthly per-user bill and no renewal that creeps up every year.
A fixed BDT number after one scoping call — for a database, roles, admin panel and reports. No dollar 'enterprise' pricing, no annual license, no 'integration is a separate phase' surprise.
Your MD or GM does not want a SQL export. The reporting screen is built so a Gulshan decision-maker reads sales, stock, attendance or tickets at a glance, on a phone, in seconds.
On launch you get the full source code on your own Git, the database and the server credentials. Hire an in-house developer next year and hand it over — nothing is ever held hostage.
Gulshan buyers get pitched three different things and the words blur together, so let me draw the line clearly, because choosing wrong is expensive. Desktop software has to be installed on every machine and updated machine by machine — fine for a single locked-down workstation, miserable the moment you have staff across the Gulshan head office and a branch or two. A mobile app is the right answer only when your own customers need it on their home screen, and it drags in app-store approvals, two platforms, and update cycles. A web application sits in the sweet spot for almost every internal Gulshan need: it runs in any browser, updates instantly for everyone the moment I deploy, works on the cheap Android the warehouse clerk carries and the laptop the director uses, and needs nothing installed. When a buying house wants order entry their reps can fill from a supplier's office, when a clinic wants a booking and patient queue the front desk and the doctor both see live, when a distributor wants stock visible across godowns in real time — the honest answer is almost always a web app, and a vendor steering you toward a native build or a desktop product is usually steering toward the bigger invoice, not the better fit.
There is a second thing I will say plainly, because Gulshan offices are too polite to hear it elsewhere: the dollar quote is a confidence trick on your postcode, not a reflection of the engineering. A distributor order portal or an HR leave tracker is the same work whether the client sits in Gulshan 2 or in Bogura — a sensibly normalised database, a few user roles, a clean admin panel, payment integration where taka moves, and reports a director trusts. I carry no Gulshan-tower rent and no offshore principal to mark up to, so I price the engineering, in taka, and I put a senior brain on it because there is no junior team I need to feed billable hours. That is the honest reason I can call this one of the best web application development choices in Gulshan: not a louder logo, but a model where the experienced person designs and writes your app and you keep every part of it. When you compare the best web application development company Gulshan has on offer, ask each one two questions — 'Who, by name, writes my code?' and 'Can I log into a live web app real staff use every day?' You can check my work at rhfardin.com, and the vague answers filter themselves out fast.
Clear packages, fixed quotes, paid in BDT. Pick a starting point — I'll tailor the exact scope on a quick call.
Every project starts at ৳50,000
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The actual questions Gulshan business owners and ops heads send me in the first message about web application development Gulshan BD — answered straight, no sales fog.
A focused single-purpose web app — one user role, a couple of core screens, the kind that replaces one painful Excel workflow — fits my tiered builds at 50,000, 90,000 or 1,50,000 BDT, with 50,000 BDT the floor for the smallest engagement. A genuine custom multi-role application — multiple logins, permissions, payment integration and real reporting — starts at 3,00,000 BDT. The exact number depends on how many user roles, which integrations (bKash, Nagad, SMS, accounting), and how much reporting you need. I give a fixed taka price after one scoping call, never a dollar figure that grows a phase at a time.
A website mostly shows information — pages a visitor reads. A web application is software your team logs into and works inside: it stores data, has user accounts and permissions, processes things, and changes based on who is signed in. An order-entry portal, an inventory dashboard, a customer CRM, an HR tracker, a booking system — those are web apps. If your need is 'people should be able to log in and do something,' not 'people should be able to read about us,' you are in web application territory, and that is exactly what this page is about.
Two honest reasons. One: at a firm, the senior who pitches you in the glass meeting room is rarely the person who writes your code — once your advance clears, the work drops to juniors while that senior moves to the next sale. You pay senior rates for fresher output. Two: a solo operator cannot afford to take a job they cannot ship, so the scoping conversation is brutally honest. If your project genuinely needs a ten-person team, I will say so and refer you. For most Gulshan internal web apps under a few lakh, one senior beats a team of five mid-levels. Verify my work at rhfardin.com.
On both, by default — that is the advantage of building for the browser. Every screen is designed mobile-first and tested at 360px before desktop, because your director will check the dashboard on a phone between meetings and your warehouse clerk is on a mid-range Android over patchy 4G. Same login, same live data, whether someone opens it on an office laptop in Gulshan or a phone in a client's office in Motijheel. Nothing to install on any device — they just open the URL and sign in.
Yes. If your app collects money from Bangladesh users, I wire in SSLCommerz (which covers cards, mobile financial services and net banking in one go), or the direct bKash and Nagad gateways, end to end — webhook handling, IPN reconciliation, refund flow, and the failure-case screens most vendors skip. Direct bKash and Nagad integrations need a merchant account set up on your side and a slightly longer testing cycle. I will tell you on the scoping call which path fits your volume and which goes in phase one.
You own it, completely. On launch day I push the full source code to your own GitHub or Bitbucket, hand over a database backup, server access and basic documentation. No forced annual license, no proprietary framework, no 'hosted only on our server' lock-in. The stack is widely known — React/Next.js on the front, Laravel or Node on the back, PostgreSQL or MySQL — so any competent Dhaka developer can read it. If you bring on an in-house developer next year and want to stop working with me, they have everything from day one. That is the point.
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