The Operator Behind the Company
Why "company of one" fits Bangladesh app projects better than a 30-person studio
Most projects at a typical mobile app development company in Bangladesh stall at the same place: month three. The original developer is already on the next client. The project manager forwards emails between you and three different juniors. Nobody remembers why a certain screen was designed that way. This handoff tax kills the build.
Working with one senior operator skips that tax entirely. The person who scopes the app is the person who designs it and codes it. The same person tests it on a real Android phone and pushes it to the Play Store.
About five years of doing this work in Bangladesh has shaped how I scope. Founders here don't want a 60-page SRS. They want to know what the app will do, when users will have it, and how it will take bKash. Enterprises want clear invoices and one person who is accountable.
Both groups get frustrated when a "company" turns out to be three salespeople and an outsourced dev team. With my setup, what you see in the proposal is what gets built. The person you message at 9 PM is the one writing the code.
The tech stack is boring on purpose. I use Flutter or React Native, so one codebase ships to both Android and iOS. I use native modules only for a real reason, like camera-heavy features, NFC or demanding media. The backend runs on Node, Laravel or Firebase, depending on what your team already uses.
Payments run through bKash Payment Gateway, Nagad Merchant API, SSLCommerz or aamarPay. I pick whichever clears fastest for your category. I never choose exotic frameworks just to pad a developer's resume.
Pricing starts at 50,000 BDT for a focused MVP. Typical packages are 50,000, 90,000 or 1,50,000 BDT, and serious custom apps start from 3,00,000 BDT. You pay 50% in advance and 50% on launch. A design-approval guarantee means you sign off on every screen before I write code. No retainers, and no surprise change orders for things already in the original brief.
See pricing in BDT