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 software studio that scopes, designs, builds, ships and then actually keeps answering, for Chattogram businesses. The trader off Khatunganj whose vendor vanished mid-project, the diagnostic centre near GEC stuck with a half-built system, the importer at Agrabad who paid a 'software company' an advance and got three screens and silence: you deal with me directly, on a signed milestone contract, with the full design approved before any code and the source code yours on launch. From 50,000 BDT, 50% advance and 50% on launch.
Senior solo operator | ~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 types 'custom software development company' into Google, the word 'company' is doing quiet work. It usually means: I want someone I can sign a contract with, raise an invoice against, and hold responsible when something breaks — not a freelancer who might ghost me. That instinct is right, but the conclusion most people draw from it is wrong. They assume 'company' means an office full of desks off GEC, and they find out the hard way that headcount and accountability are not the same thing.
The most common message I get from Chattogram businesses is not 'I need new software' — it is '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 specific 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 more solid than a freelancer. The company assigns a junior, the junior leaves, the work stalls, the advance is gone, and the owner is left with a login to a half-finished panel nobody will explain.
The reason it happened is structural: in a small shop the only person who understood your business was the one who pitched you, and he was off chasing the next sale before your build was real. The thing you bought 'company' to avoid — a single point of failure walking away — is exactly what you got, just with a logo on it. A genuine custom software development company in Chittagong, for most firms here, is whoever stays accountable from the scoping call to a year after launch.
That is a property of the person, not the payroll.
When you hire me, the accountability is not spread thin enough to disappear. I am the scoping call, the one-page scope you sign, the screens in Figma, the database, the backend, the bKash or Nagad integration, the deployment, and the person on WhatsApp when your accountant says a report is wrong. One senior operator, roughly five years building custom software and web apps for Bangladeshi businesses, one thread 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 the work at rhfardin.com, check the Google profile, and we sign a proper milestone contract before money moves — so 'can I trust a solo developer over a company' becomes a question you can answer by looking, not guessing.
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 need a clean admin panel, a few user roles, real reporting, and BD payment and SMS integration: trade and party ledgers, multi-branch inventory, order and job tracking, clinic and diagnostic booking, school management, HR and payroll for a few hundred staff.
Pricing is in BDT and fixed after one call: genuine custom software with a database, admin panel and user roles starts from 3,00,000 BDT; smaller scoped tools and web apps fit the 90,000 or 1,50,000 BDT tiers when the scope allows; the smallest engagement is 50,000 BDT. Always 50% advance, 50% on launch — bKash, Nagad or bank transfer — and you approve the full design before a line of code.
If you 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 the company it hires is one named person who signs the contract — not a sales desk that hands you to a junior and a Trello board nobody refreshes.
We sign a milestone contract with scope, dates and deliverables before any advance moves. The person who signs is the person who builds — so there is no project manager to hide behind when you need an answer.
The single failure that kills most software projects here — the one person who understood your business walking off mid-build — cannot happen, because that person is me, and I see your project through to handover and past it.
On launch you receive the full source code on your own GitHub, the database, server access and documentation. If you ever change developers, they have everything on day one. Nothing about your software is held hostage.
Party ledgers with dues and ageing, multi-branch and multi-godown stock, order and consignment tracking, owner reports that open on a phone at the port. Shaped around how a Chattogram trade or service firm actually runs.
bKash Merchant, Nagad, SSLCommerz and SMS-gateway integration is normal scope — the OTP flows, IPN callbacks and reconciliation cases done on past work, not learned 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 actually works, we fix it on paper — not in production three months and one missing developer later.
Before you hand an advance to any custom software development company in Chittagong — me included — protect yourself with four questions, because the abandoned-project stories I keep inheriting almost always trace back to skipping them. First: who, by name, will actually write the code, and can I talk to that person directly today? In most small shops the honest answer is a junior you will never meet, while the senior who charmed you in the meeting moves to the next sale.
Second: is there a written, milestone-based scope I sign before money moves, so 'done' is defined on paper and not argued about later? 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 are the whole reason I work the way I do, and the reason I will not quote a custom job in 24 hours the way many local shops do. Before any number I want 30 to 60 minutes on a call where you walk me through how the work happens now — which spreadsheet lives with whom, where a buyer's status request gets stuck, what breaks when one staffer is on leave, and what your last vendor left half-finished, if there was one.
From that I write a one-page scope; you sign it; that becomes the contract, and any new requirement mid-build is negotiated openly instead of 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 — and on launch you get the full source code, database and server access plus 30 days of free fixes for genuine bugs.
If what you really want from a custom software development company in Chittagong is software your team still uses a year later and a person who still answers when your storekeeper has a question, the office size on the other side does not matter. The accountability does.
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Straight answers to what Chattogram business owners actually ask me on the first WhatsApp message about hiring a software company.
Genuine custom software with a database, admin panel, user roles and at least one payment integration starts from 3,00,000 BDT. Smaller scoped tools — a single-branch stock tracker, a lightweight order or job-status web app — can fit my 90,000 or 1,50,000 BDT tiers, and the smallest engagement is 50,000 BDT. The exact number depends on how many user roles, which integrations (bKash, Nagad, SMS, accounting), how many branches or warehouses, and whether you also need an Android app. I quote one fixed price after a single scoping call — not a guess over the phone, and not an advance taken before the scope is written down.
Practically, a one-person software studio — and for this exact worry, that is the safer choice, not the riskier one. We sign a proper milestone contract, I raise invoices, and the person you hold responsible is the same person writing the code. The reason most owners want a 'company' is to avoid a vendor disappearing mid-project; ironically that is what happens in small shops when the lone 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 before any money moves.
Often, yes — this is half of what I get asked to do in Chattogram. First I need to see what you actually have: the source code (if they ever gave it to you), the stack and the database. If the code is reasonable, I will fix and finish it on a fresh signed scope. If it is an undocumented tangle you only have a login to, I will tell you honestly whether finishing it or rebuilding the painful parts cleanly is cheaper over the next year. Either way you get a real contract this time and the source code in your own account on launch.
Fair question, and you should not take it on faith. The protection is structural, not a promise: a written milestone contract where payment is tied to delivered work, 50% advance and 50% on launch so you never pay the full amount for something unfinished, the full source code and server access handed to your own accounts on launch, and one named senior — me — you can reach directly the whole time. If I ever stopped, you would already hold the code, the database and the documentation, which is exactly what abandoned-project owners wish they had.
Yes — this is the work I am best suited to 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 appointment systems, distributor order management for goods landed at the port and pushed upcountry, HR and payroll for a few hundred staff. The first step is a call where you walk me through your current spreadsheets, registers and WhatsApp-group workarounds, so the system maps your real process — not a generic template's.
For a typical custom system — trade ledger, multi-branch inventory, order management, clinic or school management — the realistic timeline is 6 to 12 weeks from signed contract to launch: a week or two for requirements and Figma, the bulk for development, then your team testing on staging before go-live. Anyone promising real custom software in 3 weeks is reskinning a template. For kickoff and final sign-off on larger projects I will come to your office anywhere in Agrabad, GEC, Khatunganj, Khulshi or the port area; in between, WhatsApp and Google Meet save us both a day in Chattogram traffic.
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