Hiring a freelance app developer in Dhaka is a months-long bet on one person not vanishing mid-build. I am that one person, and I put the source code in your name from day one.
I am RH Fardin, a senior freelance app developer for Dhaka founders. I have spent about five years shipping mobile-first web apps, PWAs and Capacitor builds for founders across Gulshan, Banani, Bashundhara and Dhanmondi. There is no software-house relay and no junior who quietly takes over your project. I scope it, design it, write it and launch it myself. Apps start at 50,000 BDT, with 50% advance and 50% on launch by 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. By the time you notice your marketplace freelancer has gone quiet, you have paid an advance. Half the screens sit on a stack nobody documented. The bKash setup was never finished. That is why the trust gap bites hardest when you search for a freelance app developer in Dhaka.
App projects run longer and touch real money flows. They also live on accounts you may not even control. I built this page for the founder who has been burned once, or who is scared of it happening the first time.
I am RH Fardin, a senior freelance app developer who works solo. I have about five years of building things for real Dhaka users. Those apps load on a mid-range Android phone on Robi data. They take a bKash payment without dropping the cart. They still work when the signal dies in a Bashundhara City lift.
My background is SEO and Google Ads before development. That sounds unrelated until you watch an app fail for a reason that has nothing to do with the code. 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. I wrap them with Capacitor when you truly need a Play Store icon.
Freelance, with me, means one accountable person. It is not a WhatsApp number that fronts for three subcontractors. The person you brief writes the login logic, sets up the payment gateway and pushes the live build. Your needs do not get lost in a sales-to-junior handover. There is no ticket queue when the gateway throws a 1009 error at midnight. I keep two or three active builds at a time on purpose. You cannot responsibly juggle ten apps at once.
The freelance route is safe because of how I price and hand over. Apps start at 50,000 BDT. Builds with logins, payments and several modules sit at 90,000 and 1,50,000 BDT. Custom hybrid apps start from 3,00,000 BDT. Payment is 50% advance and 50% on launch, in BDT. You sign off the design before I write a line of live code. 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. Most freelance app deals in Dhaka work the other way. Mine is set up like this on purpose.
Here are six things that differ when you hire a solo freelancer for an app build in Dhaka. Compare them with a marketplace listing or a software house.
Your GitHub repo, hosting, and Play Store and App Store developer accounts are all made in your name from day one. I never hold your app hostage behind my own logins. That is the most common freelance trap in Dhaka.
The person who scopes your app also writes the payment logic and pushes the release. There is no marketplace trick where a senior pitches and a junior you never meet does the build.
Under the design-approval guarantee, if the first screens do not fit your product, you get your 50% advance back. On a months-long app project, that is the gap between a safe hire and a gamble.
bKash Tokenized Checkout, Nagad and SSLCOMMERZ are set up properly. I test them in sandbox with real test merchant numbers. Failure handling means a gateway timeout never silently eats a customer's order.
You message me, not an account manager. Decisions happen within hours during Dhaka working hours. The person fixing a 1009 gateway error at 11pm is the same person who wrote the setup.
If a PWA does the job, I will not upsell you a native build. If your idea truly needs a Capacitor hybrid for camera or GPS work, I will say so. Scope fits your budget and your real users, not the invoice.
Before you send an advance to any freelance app developer in Dhaka, ask four questions. They separate a safe hire from a costly one, and almost no founder asks them upfront. First, whose name is on the accounts? The repo, hosting and app store accounts must be yours. If they are in his name, your app legally lives with him. Then "hand it over later" becomes a hostage talk.
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 people. Insist on talking to the person who will be in the repo. Third, what happens to my advance if the first design misses? A vague answer means the advance is not really refundable. Fourth, how will bKash and Nagad be tested before launch? Is it real sandbox merchant numbers, or a hopeful "it should work"?
I answer all four the same way on the first call, because that is how I run every project. Your accounts are yours and made in your name from the start. I am the only person who touches the code, so you always talk to the builder. Your advance is truly refundable under the design-approval guarantee if the first screens do not fit your product.
Payments are set up against real sandbox merchant accounts. I stress-test them for timeout failures, which happen far more often on Bangladeshi gateways than the docs admit. None of this is generosity. It is what an accountable freelance hire looks like when the project runs for months and moves your customers' money. If a developer cannot answer those four questions straight, 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.
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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. Those are quoted per scope. Payment is 50% advance and 50% on launch, in BDT by 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. That overhead is baked into your quote. With me, you pay for the build and the senior brain behind it. 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.
There are two built-in reasons, not just a promise. The advance is tied to a written scope we both sign. Under the design-approval guarantee, if the first screens miss, the full advance comes back. Also, 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. My five or so years of work with Dhaka clients run on referrals. Ghosting is bad business and worse maths.
You get the full source code in your own GitHub repo. The Play Store and App Store developer accounts are made in your name, not mine, from the start. This is the 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 switch developers, everything is already yours to hand over.
Take most Dhaka cases: a single-product startup, a service booking app or a small brand selling on Facebook and Instagram. There, an installable PWA converts faster, because install is one tap from an ad. It ships in weeks at 50,000 to 1,50,000 BDT. Native through Capacitor earns its 3,00,000 BDT+ cost when you need device hardware, like background GPS for delivery, a Bluetooth POS printer or biometric login. It also fits when Play Store presence is itself the trust signal. I will tell you which fits on the first call.
A 50,000 BDT mobile-first PWA takes 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, at 3,00,000 BDT+, takes 8 to 12 weeks. That is mostly because of Google's review window and policy back-and-forth. You see and approve the design before anything goes into build. Most slowdowns I see in Dhaka come from stalled client approvals, not development.
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