Most app ideas in Chattogram die in a group chat with five vendors and zero accountability. I am the one person who scopes it, builds it, and ships it to the stores.
I am RH Fardin — a senior solo developer and the mobile app development expert Chittagong businesses come to when they want an actual app on the Play Store, not a six-month "we are still developing" story. Importers and trading houses around Agrabad, retailers off GEC, restaurants, service businesses and port-side logistics outfits: if your customers live on their phones and pay with bKash or Nagad, you need an app that loads fast, takes payment cleanly, and does not crash on a 18,000-taka Android. I design and build that app myself, from 50,000 BDT, 50% advance and 50% on launch, with the full design approved before I write a line of code.
Senior solo operator, ~5 years building for Bangladeshi users. Design-approval guarantee. Direct on WhatsApp — bKash, Nagad or bank transfer.
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Almost every Chattogram business owner who messages me about an app has the same scar. They handed the idea to a "team" — two friends-of-friends, a Dhaka firm's salesman, maybe a part-timer who said he could do it on weekends — and a year later they have an APK that half-works, no source code they can find, a login that breaks, and bKash payment that was "coming next sprint." The problem was never the idea. It was that nobody owned the whole thing end to end.
A mobile app is not a website with a smaller screen — it has to pass Play Store and App Store review, survive a real customer's spotty Banglalink connection in Agrabad, and handle money without losing a single transaction. That needs one senior person accountable for every layer, not a relay race where each runner drops the baton.
Here is what makes the Chattogram brief specific. This is a phone-first, cash-and-mobile-money city. Your customer is not sitting at a laptop in Khulshi — they are standing at a counter near GEC Circle, on a mid-range Android, deciding in three seconds whether your app is worth keeping or worth deleting. They expect to pay with bKash or Nagad, not type a 16-digit card number nobody in the city wants to enter on a phone.
And because so much real business here runs on trade, logistics and the port, the apps I am asked to build are rarely vanity projects — they are order-taking apps for distributors, booking apps for service firms, delivery and inventory tools for retailers, loyalty apps for restaurants. Practical software that has to earn its place on a screen already crowded with Facebook, imo and Pathao.
When you hire me, you are not hiring an agency where a salesman wins the work and a junior you never meet writes the code. I am the discovery call, the user flows, the screens in Figma, the actual Flutter or native build, the bKash/Nagad integration, the Play Store and App Store submission, and the person who picks up on WhatsApp when a customer reports a bug. One senior operator, around five years deep into building for Bangladeshi users and their devices, one thread for the whole project. That single-point accountability is the entire reason my apps actually ship — there is no layered team quietly missing deadlines and blaming each other while your launch slips another month.
Pricing is honest and fixed, whether your letterhead says Chattogram or Chittagong. 50,000 BDT for a focused single-purpose app — one core job done cleanly, like a booking, ordering or catalogue app with a clean backend. 90,000 BDT for a standard app with user accounts, push notifications and bKash or Nagad payment built in. 1,50,000 BDT for a fuller app with an admin dashboard, multiple user roles and richer features. From 3,00,000 BDT for fully custom builds designed from a blank canvas. Always 50% advance, 50% on launch — bKash, Nagad or bank transfer — and you approve the full design before a single screen is coded.
Six things a Chattogram business genuinely needs from an app — and all six are standard from the 50,000 BDT tier, not upsells buried in a bigger package.
You pay one experienced developer from 50,000 BDT — not a Dhaka agency rate loaded with office rent, project managers and margin. The saving is the markup that disappears, never the quality of the build.
Payment built the way Chittagong customers actually pay — bKash and Nagad first, not a card form nobody wants to use on a phone. Tested with real test credentials so money lands, every time, with no dropped transactions.
Tested on the 15,000–20,000-taka phones your customers actually carry, on real Robi and Banglalink data in GEC traffic — not just on a flagship over office WiFi. A laggy app gets deleted the same day it is installed.
I handle the Play Store and App Store submission, the review rejections, the privacy policy and the store listing. Plenty of "finished" apps in Chattogram never actually went live — yours will be installable, not an APK on a pen drive.
Full source code, store accounts in your name, backend keys in your hands. No vendor lock where a quitting freelancer holds your app hostage — a common, expensive trap for Chittagong businesses on their second attempt.
No code starts until you sign off every screen in Figma. If a flow does not match how your customers think, we fix it on the design first. You never pay the second half for a build you did not approve.
The first thing a Chattogram business owner usually asks after "koto taka?" is whether the app will be on iPhone too. Honest answer: for almost every business here, your customers are on Android, and a few owners and a slice of higher-end buyers are on iPhone. So I build cross-platform — one clean Flutter codebase that ships to both the Play Store and the App Store — which is exactly why a real app starts at 50,000 BDT instead of double that.
Native iOS development from scratch makes sense for a handful of cases, and I will tell you plainly if yours is one of them, but most Chittagong businesses are paying for an iPhone build their actual customer base barely uses. I would rather you spend that money on a feature that earns you orders than on covering a platform 15% of your users are on.
The deeper issue is that an app is not a one-time delivery — it is a thing that lives on a phone and has to keep working after launch. Android updates break old code, the bKash and Nagad SDKs change, Google tightens Play Store policies every year, and a customer in Agrabad will absolutely report a crash you never saw in testing.
I build with that reality baked in: clean code you actually own, a backend you can read, and a maintenance arrangement that is honest rather than a padded monthly retainer for nothing. If you want a mobile app development expert in Chittagong who treats your app like infrastructure your business will run on for years — not a project to finish, invoice and forget — that is exactly the lane I work in.
One senior person, who scoped it, who built it, and who picks up the phone when something needs a fix before a busy weekend.
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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Straight answers to what Chattogram business owners ask me on the first WhatsApp message.
My app builds start at 50,000 BDT for a focused single-purpose app — one core job done cleanly, like a booking, ordering or catalogue app with a clean backend. 90,000 BDT adds user accounts, push notifications and bKash or Nagad payment. 1,50,000 BDT covers a fuller app with an admin dashboard, multiple user roles and richer features. Fully custom builds start from 3,00,000 BDT. Payment is always 50% advance, 50% on launch — bKash, Nagad or bank transfer. The 50,000 BDT floor is a senior solo price, not a cut-corner one-screen demo.
Yes — I build cross-platform with a single Flutter codebase that ships to both the Play Store and the App Store, which is why a real app starts at 50,000 BDT instead of double. For most Chittagong businesses your customers are overwhelmingly on Android, with owners and a slice of buyers on iPhone, so one codebase covering both is the sensible spend. If your specific case genuinely needs native iOS, I will say so honestly rather than sell you a build your customers will not use.
Yes, and for a Chattogram app I almost always recommend it over cards — your customers pay with bKash and Nagad, not by typing a 16-digit card number on a phone. I integrate the official bKash and Nagad payment flows, test them with real test credentials before launch, and build the order and transaction logic so money lands without dropped or duplicate payments. Payment integration is standard from the 90,000 BDT tier and can be scoped into a smaller build if it is the app's core job.
This is the most common message I get from Chattogram owners. I will look at what you have for free and tell you honestly whether it is salvageable. If there is clean, owned source code, I can often take it over and finish it. But if it is an APK with no source, no backend access, or code held by a freelancer who has gone quiet, rebuilding on a foundation you actually own is usually faster and cheaper than untangling someone else's mess. Either way, you will end the project owning your code, store accounts and keys.
A focused 50,000 BDT app typically takes a few weeks from design sign-off to a live store listing; a 90,000 to 1,50,000 BDT app with accounts, payments and an admin dashboard takes longer depending on scope. The honest delay is usually not the code — it is Play Store and App Store review, which I handle, including any rejections. I scope a realistic timeline before you pay, and because one senior operator runs the whole thing, there is no team handoff quietly adding weeks to it.
For projects from 90,000 BDT I am happy to come to your office anywhere in Agrabad, GEC, Khulshi, Nasirabad or the port area for the kickoff and the final design sign-off. For everything in between, WhatsApp and Google Meet save us both a day stuck in Chattogram traffic. I do not run weekly status calls — you have a business to run, and one senior developer does not need a meeting to know exactly where your app stands.
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