When a Chittagong business searches for a custom software development company, it is usually because the last one stopped replying. The fix is not a bigger office. It is one senior person whose name is on the contract.
I am RH Fardin, a one-person custom software development company in Chittagong. I scope, design, build and launch, and then I keep answering. Maybe you trade off Khatunganj and your vendor vanished mid-project. Maybe you run a diagnostic centre near GEC with a half-built system. Maybe you import at Agrabad, paid an advance and got three screens and silence. With me you get a signed milestone contract and design approval before code. The source code is yours on launch. From 50,000 BDT, 50% advance and 50% on launch.
Senior solo operator | About 5 years building for BD businesses | Signed milestone contract | Source-code handover, no lock-in | bKash, Nagad or bank transfer
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When a Chittagong owner searches for a custom software development company in Chittagong, the word "company" does quiet work. It usually means: I want someone I can sign a contract with and invoice. I want someone I can hold responsible when something breaks, not a freelancer who might ghost me. That instinct is right. But most people draw the wrong conclusion from it.
They assume "company" means an office full of desks off GEC. Then they learn the hard way that headcount is not accountability. The most common message I get from Chattogram businesses is not a request for new software. It is this: "a software company took our advance, built half of it, and now nobody picks up." A registered name on a signboard did not protect them. What protects you is a clear scope, a milestone contract and one named person who cannot hide behind a project manager.
Here is the failure I keep cleaning up in Chattogram. A firm, say an importer at Agrabad or a clinic chain in Khulshi, hires a small software "company" because it looks safer than a freelancer. The company assigns a junior. The junior leaves, the work stalls and the advance is gone. The owner is left with a login to a half-finished panel nobody will explain.
The cause is built into how small shops work. The only person who understood your business was the one who pitched you. He was off chasing the next sale before your build was real. You hired a "company" to avoid one person walking away, and that is exactly what you got, just with a logo on it. For most firms here, a real custom software development company in Chittagong is whoever stays accountable from the scoping call to a year after launch. That depends on the person, not the payroll.
When you hire me, the accountability is never spread thin enough to disappear. I run the scoping call and write the one-page scope you sign. I design the screens in Figma and build the database and the backend. I add the bKash or Nagad link and handle the deployment. I am also the person on WhatsApp when your accountant says a report is wrong.
I am one senior operator with about five years building custom software and web apps for Bangladeshi businesses. One thread runs from first message to handover. There is no salesman to over-promise, and no junior to inherit a brief he never heard. You can see my work at rhfardin.com and check my Google profile. We sign a proper milestone contract before money moves. So whether you can trust a solo developer becomes something you can check, not guess.
Let me be honest about scope, because "company" should not mean "will build anything." My lane is small-to-mid custom software for Chattogram firms. That means a clean admin panel, a few user roles, real reports, and BD payment and SMS links. Think trade and party ledgers, multi-branch inventory and order or job tracking. It also covers clinic and diagnostic booking, school management, and HR and payroll for a few hundred staff.
Pricing is in BDT and fixed after one call. Real custom software with a database, admin panel and user roles starts from 3,00,000 BDT. Smaller tools and web apps fit the 90,000 or 1,50,000 BDT tiers when the scope allows. The smallest job is 50,000 BDT. Always 50% advance and 50% on launch, by bKash, Nagad or bank transfer. You approve the full design before any code. Need a 300-screen ERP for a 5,000-worker EPZ factory? I will tell you on the first call to hire a larger team.
Six things a Chattogram firm gets when its software company is one named person who signs the contract. Not a sales desk that hands you to a junior and a Trello board nobody checks.
We sign a milestone contract with scope, dates and deliverables before any advance moves. The person who signs is the person who builds. There is no project manager to hide behind when you need an answer.
Most software projects here die when the one person who understood your business walks off mid-build. That cannot happen here, because that person is me. I see your project through to handover and beyond.
On launch you get the full source code on your own GitHub, plus the database, server access and documentation. If you ever change developers, they have everything on day one. Nothing is held hostage.
Party ledgers with dues and ageing, multi-branch and multi-godown stock, and order and consignment tracking. Owner reports open on a phone at the port. It is all shaped around how a Chattogram trade or service firm runs.
bKash Merchant, Nagad, SSLCommerz and SMS gateway links are normal scope. I have built the OTP flows, IPN callbacks and reconciliation cases on past work. I am not learning them for the first time on your project.
You approve every screen in Figma before backend work starts. If a flow does not match how your storekeeper or accountant works, we fix it on paper. Not in production, three months and one missing developer later.
Before you pay an advance to any custom software development company in Chittagong, me included, ask four questions. The abandoned projects I inherit almost always trace back to skipping them. First: who, by name, will write the code, and can I talk to that person today? In most small shops, the honest answer is a junior you will never meet. The senior who charmed you moves on to the next sale.
Second: is there a written, milestone-based scope I sign before money moves, so "done" is defined on paper? Third: on launch, do I get the full source code, database and server access in my own accounts? Or am I renting access to my own system from a vendor who can switch it off? Fourth: if you vanish, what do I have? If the answer is "a login to a panel only you can change," you are buying the exact risk that ruins these projects.
Those four questions shape how I work. They are why I will not quote a custom job in 24 hours like many local shops. Before any number, I want a 30 to 60 minute call. You walk me through how the work happens now. Which spreadsheet lives with whom? Where does a buyer's status request get stuck? What breaks when one staffer is on leave? What did your last vendor leave half-finished? I then write a one-page scope. You sign it, and it is the contract.
Any new need mid-build is agreed openly, not sprung as an inflated extra at the end. Design is approved in Figma before backend code. The price is fixed in BDT after that one call: custom software from 3,00,000 BDT, smaller tools from the 50,000 BDT floor. On launch you get the source code, database and server access, plus 30 days of free fixes for real bugs. What matters is software your team still uses a year later, and a person who still answers. Office size does not matter. Accountability does.
Clear packages, fixed quotes, paid in BDT. Pick a starting point. I'll tailor the exact scope on a quick call.
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Straight answers to what Chattogram business owners ask me in their first WhatsApp message about hiring a software company.
Real custom software with a database, admin panel, user roles and at least one payment link starts from 3,00,000 BDT. Smaller tools, like a single-branch stock tracker or a light order-status web app, can fit the 90,000 or 1,50,000 BDT tiers. The smallest job is 50,000 BDT. The price depends on user roles, links (bKash, Nagad, SMS, accounting), branches or warehouses, and whether you need an Android app. I quote one fixed price after a single scoping call, never an advance before the scope is written down.
In practice, I am a one-person software studio. For this exact worry, that is the safer choice. We sign a proper milestone contract and I raise invoices. The person you hold responsible is the same person writing the code. Most owners want a "company" so a vendor cannot vanish mid-project. Ironically, that is what happens in small shops when the one developer who understood your business leaves. With me, there is no chain to break. You can see my work at rhfardin.com and check my Google profile first.
Often, yes. This is half my work in Chattogram. First I need to see what you have: the source code, if they ever gave it to you, plus the stack and the database. If the code is reasonable, I will fix and finish it on a fresh signed scope. If it is a tangle behind a login, I will tell you honestly which is cheaper over a year. That means finishing it or rebuilding the painful parts. Either way, you get a real contract and the code in your account.
Fair question, and you should not take it on faith. The protection is in the setup, not a promise. A written milestone contract ties payment to delivered work. You pay 50% in advance and 50% on launch, so you never pay in full for something unfinished. The full source code and server access go to your own accounts on launch. And you can reach one named senior, me, the whole time. If I ever stopped, you would already hold the code, database and documentation.
Yes. This is the work I suit best for Chattogram firms. Party ledgers with dues and ageing. Multi-branch and multi-godown stock with transfers. Order, consignment and job-status tracking. Clinic and diagnostic booking systems. Order tools for distributors moving goods from the port upcountry. HR and payroll for a few hundred staff. First, you walk me through your current spreadsheets, registers and WhatsApp-group workarounds on a call. That way the system maps your real process, not a generic template.
A typical custom system takes 6 to 12 weeks from signed contract to launch. That covers trade ledgers, multi-branch inventory, order tools, or clinic and school management. A week or two goes to requirements and Figma, most of it to development, then your team tests on staging. Anyone promising real custom software in 3 weeks is reskinning a template. No in-person meeting is needed. Kickoff, reviews and final sign-off all happen on Google Meet or WhatsApp, for teams in Agrabad, GEC, Khatunganj, Khulshi or the port area.
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