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. I am the mobile app development expert Chittagong businesses come to for a real app on the Play Store, not a six-month "still developing" story. Your customers live on their phones and pay with bKash or Nagad. So you need an app that loads fast, takes payment cleanly and does not crash on an 18,000-taka Android. I build it myself, from 50,000 BDT, with 50% advance and 50% on launch. You approve the full design before I write a line of code.
Senior solo operator, about 5 years building for Bangladeshi users. Design-approval guarantee. Direct on WhatsApp. bKash, Nagad or bank transfer.
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Almost every Chattogram owner who asks me, as a mobile app development expert in Chittagong, about an app has the same scar. They handed the idea to a "team." Maybe two friends-of-friends, a Dhaka firm's salesman, or a part-timer who said he could do it on weekends. A year later they have an APK that half-works and no source code they can find. The login breaks, and bKash payment is still "coming next sprint."
The problem was never the idea. Nobody owned the whole thing from end to end. A mobile app is not a website with a smaller screen. It has to pass Play Store and App Store review. It has to survive a real customer's spotty Banglalink connection in Agrabad. And it has to handle money without losing a single transaction. That needs one senior person responsible 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 at a laptop in Khulshi. They are standing at a counter near GEC Circle, on a mid-range Android. They decide in three seconds if your app is worth keeping or deleting. They expect to pay with bKash or Nagad, not type a 16-digit card number nobody here wants to enter on a phone.
So much real business here runs on trade, logistics and the port. So the apps I am asked to build are rarely vanity projects. I build apps for businesses across Chittagong: importers and trading houses around Agrabad, retailers off GEC, restaurants, service firms and port-side logistics outfits. That means order-taking apps for distributors, booking apps for service firms, delivery and stock tools for retailers, and loyalty apps for restaurants. It is practical software that must earn its place next to 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 do the discovery call, the user flows and the screens in Figma. I write the Flutter or native build and set up the bKash/Nagad payments. I handle the Play Store and App Store submission. And I am the person who picks up on WhatsApp when a customer reports a bug.
I am one senior operator, with about five years building for Bangladeshi users and their devices. There is one thread for the whole project. That single point of accountability is the whole reason my apps really 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 buys a focused single-purpose app. It does one core job cleanly, like a booking, ordering or catalogue app with a clean backend. 90,000 BDT buys a standard app with user accounts, push notifications and bKash or Nagad payment built in. 1,50,000 BDT buys a fuller app with an admin dashboard, multiple user roles and richer features.
Fully custom builds, designed from a blank canvas, start from 3,00,000 BDT. It is always 50% advance and 50% on launch, by bKash, Nagad or bank transfer. You approve the full design before a single screen is coded.
Here are six things a Chattogram business truly needs from an app. 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. You don't pay a Dhaka agency rate loaded with office rent, project managers and margin. What you save is the markup, never the quality of the build.
Payment works the way Chittagong customers really pay: bKash and Nagad first, not a card form nobody wants to use on a phone. I test it with real test credentials, so money lands every time, with no dropped transactions.
I test on the 15,000 to 20,000-taka phones your customers really 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 went live. Yours will be installable, not an APK on a pen drive.
You get the full source code, store accounts in your name and backend keys in your hands. No vendor lock where a quitting freelancer holds your app hostage. That is a common, costly trap for Chittagong businesses on their second try.
No code starts until you sign off every screen in Figma. If a flow does not match how your customers think, we fix it in the design first. You never pay the second half for a build you did not approve.
After "koto taka?", a Chattogram owner usually asks if the app will be on iPhone too. Honest answer: for almost every business here, your customers are on Android. A few owners and a slice of higher-end buyers use iPhone. So I build cross-platform. One clean Flutter codebase ships to both the Play Store and the App Store. That is why a real app starts at 50,000 BDT instead of double that.
Native iOS from scratch makes sense in a handful of cases, and I will tell you plainly if yours is one. But most Chittagong businesses would be paying for an iPhone build their real customers barely use. I would rather you spend that money on a feature that earns orders. Don't spend it covering a platform that 15% of your users are on.
The deeper point is that an app is not a one-time delivery. It 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 rules every year. And a customer in Agrabad will report a crash you never saw in testing. I build with that in mind: clean code you own, a backend you can read, and an honest maintenance deal, not a padded monthly retainer for nothing.
Maybe you want a mobile app development expert in Chittagong who treats your app like infrastructure your business runs on for years. Not a project to finish, invoice and forget. That is exactly the lane I work in. You get one senior person who scoped it and built it. That same person 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
A sharp, credible site that makes the right first impression and brings enquiries.
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A full, professional site that ranks and converts for a growing business.
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An online store built to sell and scale.
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Need something bigger? Custom & enterprise builds from ৳3,00,000. Pay by bKash, Nagad, bank transfer or card. Ask for an exact price or send an email.
Here are straight answers to what Chattogram business owners ask me in the first WhatsApp message.
My app builds start at 50,000 BDT for a focused single-purpose app. It does one core job 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 and 50% on launch, by bKash, Nagad or bank transfer. The floor is a senior solo price, not a cut-corner demo.
Yes. I build cross-platform with one Flutter codebase that ships to both the Play Store and the App Store. That is why a real app starts at 50,000 BDT instead of double. Most Chittagong businesses have customers who are mostly on Android, with owners and a slice of buyers on iPhone. So one codebase covering both is the sensible spend. If your case truly needs native iOS, I will say so honestly. I won't sell you a build your customers will not use.
Yes. 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 set up the official bKash and Nagad payment flows and test them with real test credentials before launch. I build the order and transaction logic so money lands without dropped or double payments. Payment is standard from the 90,000 BDT tier. It can be scoped into a smaller build if payment is the app's core job.
This is the most common message I get here. I will look at what you have for free and tell you honestly if it can be saved. If there is clean source code you own, I can often take it over and finish it. But it may be an APK with no source or backend access, or code held by a freelancer gone quiet. Then rebuilding on a base you own is usually faster and cheaper. Either way, you end up owning your code, store accounts and keys.
A focused 50,000 BDT app usually 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, based on scope. The real 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. One senior operator runs the whole thing, so no team handoff quietly adds weeks.
Everything runs remotely, and it works well. We hold the kickoff and the final design sign-off on Google Meet, for businesses anywhere in Agrabad, GEC, Khulshi, Nasirabad or the port area. Day to day, we talk on WhatsApp. 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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