Cheap custom software development in Dhaka that actually ships and keeps running
I am RH Fardin, a one-person software shop in Dhaka. I build the internal tool, dashboard, or automation your business is currently running on spreadsheets and WhatsApp groups — and I hand you the source code at the end. Cheap here means I cut the agency markup and the middlemen, not the testing. Small tools start at 50,000 BDT; full custom systems from 3,00,000 BDT.
Tools from 50,000 BDT. Full custom software from 3,00,000 BDT. 50% advance, 50% on launch. Around 5 years building in Bangladesh. One senior developer — the person you message is the person who writes the code.
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Here is the version of this story I hear most in Dhaka: a business owner in Motijheel or Gulshan needs a simple inventory tool, or a sales dashboard, or a way to stop tracking 400 orders in an Excel file. Someone quotes 40,000 taka. Three months in, the developer has built a login page and one broken table, stopped replying on WhatsApp, and the owner is back on the spreadsheet — except now they are also out 40,000 taka. That is not cheap custom software development. That is paying for an abandoned project.
Custom software is different from a website. A website you can see is broken. With software, the bugs hide inside the logic — a stock count that drifts wrong over two months, a report that quietly double-counts, an export that breaks the day your accountant actually needs it. A 'cheap developer' who does not test, does not handle edge cases, and does not document the code leaves you with something that looks done and is not. You only discover that when it costs you real money.
I built a genuinely low-cost path into custom software in Dhaka because there is a wide, painful gap between that 40,000-taka disappearing act and a software house in Banani quoting 8 to 15 lakh with a six-month timeline and a project manager you never asked for. A lot of Dhaka SMEs do not need an enterprise platform. They need one tool that does one job correctly — and they need it to still work, and still be fixable, a year from now.
I am RH Fardin, the only person who touches your project. Around five years writing code in Bangladesh, mostly for small businesses, importers, clinics and trading firms who outgrew spreadsheets. 'Cheap' does not change how I work — you still get a real requirements call, a written scope, tested code, and the full source handed over so you are never trapped paying me forever. If your problem genuinely fits an off-the-shelf tool, I will tell you to buy that instead of paying me to build it.
Cheap should describe the price, not the engineering. Every build — whether it is a 50,000 BDT internal tool or a 3,00,000 BDT custom system — ships tested, documented, and fully yours.
Full source code handed over on launch, in a repository in your name. If you ever stop working with me, you walk away with the whole codebase and can hire anyone to continue it. No 'the code lives on my laptop' trap.
I sit with how your business actually runs — the order flow, the stock register, the approval steps — before writing a line. The software fits your process, instead of forcing your team to change how they work to suit a rigid template.
If your tool needs to log bKash and Nagad payments, reconcile manual transactions, or match a transaction ID against an order, I build that logic carefully — because a payment-matching bug is the one that loses you actual taka.
I test the edge cases that break cheap software: empty states, wrong inputs, two users at once, the month-end report, the export your accountant needs. The bugs that hide in business logic are exactly what I am paid to catch.
We agree the exact features and the price in writing before I start. No 'sir aro lakh dui lagbe' surprise three weeks in. You can budget the project confidently because the scope does not silently grow.
You get a plain-language guide to how the software works, how to run it, and how the data is structured — so the next developer (or your own team) is never reverse-engineering a black box.
The real reason I can quote custom software cheaper than a Dhaka software house is that there is no house. No office lease in Gulshan, no sales team, no project manager forwarding your requirement to a junior in Mirpur who half-understands it and builds the wrong thing. You explain what you need to me, and I am the one who designs the data model, writes the backend, builds the screens, and tests it. That structure removes the layers where most of the cost — and most of the miscommunication — lives. You are paying for working software, not for overhead and meetings.
I also keep it cheap by being honest about scope, which is the single biggest cost-killer in custom software. Most projects blow their budget because nobody defined 'done' at the start, so features keep getting added and the bill keeps climbing. I do the opposite: we write down exactly what the software must do, I quote that, and we ship it.
A focused internal tool — an order tracker, a simple inventory or invoicing system, a CRM your sales team actually uses — can start at the 50,000 BDT tier when the scope is tight. Something with more moving parts, real user roles, reports and integrations sits at the 90,000 or 1,50,000 BDT tiers.
A genuinely custom system built from the ground up — multi-module, multi-user, integrated with your existing tools — starts at 3,00,000 BDT, and I will tell you plainly on the first call which band your idea falls into. Payment is always 50% advance, 50% on launch, so you never pay in full for something you have not seen running.
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 questions Dhaka business owners actually ask before commissioning custom software.
It depends entirely on scope, but here is the honest range. A focused single-purpose internal tool — an order tracker, a basic inventory or invoicing tool, a simple CRM — can start at 50,000 BDT when the feature list is tight. Add user roles, reports, dashboards and integrations and you are at the 90,000 to 1,50,000 BDT tiers. A full custom software system built from scratch — multiple modules, multiple user types, connected to your other tools — starts at 3,00,000 BDT. I quote a fixed price after one requirements call, and it is 50% advance, 50% on launch.
Because cheap custom software development in Dhaka has a floor below which the math stops working. Real custom software takes weeks of design, building and — critically — testing. At 40,000 taka, nobody can afford to test it properly, so they don't, and you inherit a system riddled with the logic bugs that only surface when they cost you money. Most of those 40,000-taka projects are never finished at all. The 50,000 BDT floor is the lowest point at which I can actually ship something that works and that I am willing to put my name on.
The common ones: inventory and stock systems, order and delivery trackers, invoicing and billing tools, simple CRMs and lead pipelines, internal dashboards that pull your numbers into one screen, booking and appointment systems for clinics and services, and automations that kill repetitive manual work — the things Dhaka SMEs currently run on tangled Excel files and WhatsApp groups. If you can describe the manual process eating your team's day, I can usually tell you on the call whether software is worth it.
You do — completely. The full source code is handed over on launch, in a repository in your name, along with a plain-language handover document. This is the single biggest difference between cheap-but-real and cheap-but-trapped. A lot of low-cost developers in Dhaka keep the code so you have to keep paying them for every change. With me, you can take the codebase and hire anyone else to extend it. You are never locked in.
Fair concern, and it is exactly why the handover matters. Because you get the full source code and documentation, you are not dependent on me being available forever — any competent developer can pick it up. During the build you message me directly and I reply directly, with no agency phone-tag. After launch there is a fix window for bugs, and clear options if you want me on a small monthly retainer for changes. The whole arrangement is built so you keep control whether I am in the picture or not.
Yes. The 50% advance can come via bKash personal, Nagad, bank transfer, or international wire if you are paying from abroad, and I send a proper invoice with a transaction reference field so it goes cleanly through your books. The remaining 50% is due on launch, once you have seen the software running and signed off. You never pay the full amount up front for software you have not yet seen working — that protects both of us.
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