Hiring a freelance app developer in Dhaka is a months-long bet on one person not vanishing mid-build. I am the one person — and I put the source code in your name from day one.
I am RH Fardin, a senior freelance app developer based in Dhaka with around five years shipping mobile-first web apps, PWAs and Capacitor builds for founders across Gulshan, Banani, Bashundhara and Dhanmondi. No software-house relay, no junior who quietly inherits your project — I scope it, design it, write it and launch it myself. Apps start at 50,000 BDT, 50% advance and 50% on launch via bKash, Nagad or bank transfer.
One senior freelancer, not a marketplace gig. Around 5 years shipping production apps. Design-approval guarantee. Source code and store accounts in your name, never mine. From 50,000 BDT.
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A brochure website that goes wrong costs you a few weeks. An app that goes wrong costs you months, because by the time you realise the freelancer you hired off a marketplace has gone quiet, you have already paid an advance, half the screens are built on a stack nobody documented, and the bKash integration was never actually finished. App projects run longer, touch real money flows, and live on accounts you may not even control — which is exactly why "freelance app developer in Dhaka" is the search where the trust gap bites hardest. I built this page for the founder who has either been through that once or is terrified of going through it the first time.
I am RH Fardin, a senior freelance app developer working solo from Dhaka. Around five years of building things that have to load on a mid-range Android phone on Robi data, accept a bKash payment without dropping the cart, and still work when the signal dies in a Bashundhara City lift.
My background is SEO and Google Ads before development, which sounds unrelated until you have watched an app fail not because the code was bad but because nobody thought about how a real Dhaka user moves from a Facebook ad to a finished checkout. I build mobile-first web apps and PWAs in React, Next.js and Tailwind, and wrap them with Capacitor when you genuinely need a Play Store icon.
Freelance, with me, means one accountable person — not a WhatsApp number that fronts for three sub-contractors. The person you brief is the person who writes the auth logic, wires the payment gateway, and pushes the production build. There is no sales-to-junior handover where your requirements get lost in translation, and no ticket queue when the gateway throws a 1009 error at midnight. I keep two or three active builds at a time on purpose, because an app is not something you can responsibly juggle ten of at once.
The structure that makes the freelance route safe is built into how I price and hand over. Apps start at 50,000 BDT, with tiers at 90,000 and 1,50,000 BDT for builds with logins, payments and multiple modules, and custom hybrid apps from 3,00,000 BDT. Payment is 50% advance and 50% on launch, in BDT, and the design is signed off by you before a line of production code is written — if the design does not land, you do not pay for the build.
Most importantly, the GitHub repo, the hosting, and the Play Store and App Store accounts all sit in your name. If you ever want to move to another developer, nothing is locked behind me. That is the opposite of how most freelance app deals in Dhaka are structured, and it is deliberate.
Six things that are specifically different about hiring a solo freelancer for an app build in Dhaka, versus a marketplace listing or a software house.
GitHub repo, hosting, and the Play Store and App Store developer accounts are all created in your name from day one. I never hold your app hostage behind my own credentials — the single most common freelance trap in Dhaka.
The person who scopes your app is the person who writes the payment logic and pushes the release. No marketplace sleight-of-hand where a senior pitches and a junior you never meet actually builds it.
The design-approval guarantee means if the first screens do not represent your product, you get your 50% advance back. On a months-long app project, that is the difference between a safe hire and a gamble.
bKash Tokenized Checkout, Nagad and SSLCOMMERZ integrated properly — sandbox tested with the real test merchant numbers, with failure handling so a gateway timeout never silently eats a customer's order.
You message me, not an account manager. Decisions happen in hours during Dhaka working hours, and the person fixing a 1009 gateway error at 11pm is the same person who wrote the integration.
If a PWA does the job, I will not upsell you a native build. If your idea genuinely needs a Capacitor hybrid for camera or GPS work, I will say so. Scope is shaped to your budget and your real users, not the invoice.
Before you send an advance to any freelance app developer in Dhaka, there are four questions that separate a safe hire from a costly one, and almost no founder thinks to ask them upfront. First: whose name is on the accounts? The repo, the hosting and the app store developer accounts must be registered to you, not your developer — if they are in his name, your app legally lives with him, and "hand it over later" becomes a hostage negotiation. Second: who actually writes the code?
On a marketplace, the senior who charmed you in chat and the junior who builds at 2am are often two different people; insist on talking to the person who will be in the repo. Third: what happens to my advance if the first design misses? If the answer is vague, the advance is not really refundable. Fourth: how do the bKash and Nagad payments get tested before launch — with real sandbox merchant numbers, or a hopeful "it should work"?
I answer all four the same way on the first call, because the answers are how I run every project. Your accounts are yours and created in your name from the start. I am the only person who touches the code, so you are always talking to the builder. Your advance is genuinely refundable under the design-approval guarantee if the first screens do not fit your product.
And payments are wired against real sandbox merchant accounts and stress-tested for the timeout failures that happen far more often on Bangladeshi gateways than the official docs admit. None of this is generosity — it is just what an accountable freelance hire should look like when the project is going to run for months and move your customers' money. If a developer cannot give you straight answers to those four questions, the price they quoted is not the real cost.
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 founders ask me on the first WhatsApp call before hiring a freelance app developer — answered straight.
An installable PWA or mobile-first web app starts at 50,000 BDT. Builds with user logins, payments and several modules sit at 90,000 or 1,50,000 BDT. Custom hybrid apps with a Capacitor shell, admin panel and Play Store submission start at 3,00,000 BDT and are quoted per scope. Payment is 50% advance and 50% on launch, in BDT via bKash, Nagad or bank transfer. Every number is fixed in writing before work starts — no "contact us" games.
A software house carries sales staff, account managers and office rent, and that overhead is baked into your quote. With me you pay for the build and the senior brain behind it, and you get the same person from kickoff to launch. The trade-off is that I take fewer projects at once, so you cannot hand me a huge multi-app platform on a two-week deadline. For most startup, SME and single-product app briefs in Dhaka, that trade works in your favour.
Two structural reasons, not just a promise. The advance is tied to a written scope we both sign, and the design-approval guarantee means if the first screens miss, the full advance comes back. On top of that, your repo, hosting and store accounts are in your name from day one, so even in a worst case you are never locked out of your own app. I have built around five years of work in Dhaka on referrals — ghosting is bad business and worse maths.
You get the full source code in your own GitHub repo, and the Play Store and App Store developer accounts are created in your name, not mine, from the start. This is the single biggest difference between me and most freelance app developers in Dhaka — many keep accounts under their own login so you cannot leave. With me, if you ever want to switch developers, everything is already yours to hand over.
For most Dhaka use cases — a single-product startup, a service booking app, a small ecommerce brand selling through Facebook and Instagram — an installable PWA converts faster because the install is one tap from an ad, and it ships in weeks at 50,000 to 1,50,000 BDT. Native via Capacitor earns its 3,00,000 BDT+ cost when you need real device hardware like background GPS for delivery, a Bluetooth POS printer, or biometric login, or when Play Store presence is itself the trust signal. I will tell you honestly which fits on the first call.
A 50,000 BDT mobile-first PWA is about 3 weeks from signed advance to a live URL. The 90,000 and 1,50,000 BDT tiers with logins and payments run 4 to 6 weeks. A custom hybrid app with Play Store submission (3,00,000 BDT+) is 8 to 12 weeks, mostly because of Google's review window and content-policy back-and-forth. You see and approve the design before anything goes into build, and most slowdowns I see in Dhaka are client-side approvals stalling, not development.
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