Mobile app development in Sylhet only counts if the app survives a Walton phone, a bKash redirect and a customer who decides everything from his thumb.
I am RH Fardin - a senior solo developer who designs, builds and ships mobile apps for Sylhet businesses end to end. No sales-call hand-off to a junior who quietly disappears with your advance.
The restaurant group whose owner runs it from Bradford and wants ordering on a phone, the travel and Hajj agency that needs bookings and instalment reminders in a customer's pocket, the Bandar Bazar retailer who sells more on Facebook than in the shop: you tell me how your customer actually buys, and I build the Android (and iOS) app that fits it.
Mobile app development in Sylhet from 50,000 BDT, bKash and Nagad handled properly, full design approved before a single screen is coded, 50% advance and 50% on launch.
Senior solo operator | ~5 years building for BD businesses | Android-first, bKash/Nagad-ready | Design-approval guarantee | 50% advance, 50% on launch | Source code + keystore handed over, no lock-in
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Most Sylhet owners who message me about an app are not chasing a trend - they have watched a real shift. Their customer no longer walks into Zindabazar or Bandar Bazar; he scrolls a Facebook reel on a 12,000-taka Android phone, messages on WhatsApp, and pays with bKash without ever standing up.
A website helps, but in this market the thing that actually sits on the customer's home screen, sends him a push when his Hajj instalment is due or his food is on the way, and lets him reorder in two taps - that is an app. Mobile app development in Sylhet, done honestly, starts by accepting that your buyer lives inside his phone and your app is competing with Facebook for that one thumb.
Here is what makes the Sylhet app brief its own thing. The money behind these businesses is wired to the diaspora, and so is the audience: a restaurant chain owned from East London that wants UK relatives ordering food for family back home, a travel agency selling UK-route and Hajj packages where the person paying is in Birmingham and the traveller is in Sylhet, a flat developer whose NRB buyer wants to check his booking from New York.
So the app has two jobs at once - serve the customer here on a cheap Android over patchy 4G, and reassure the owner or payer abroad who watches everything from an iPhone six time zones away. That is why I default to Android-first (95% of your local users) with a clean iOS build for the diaspora side, instead of pretending every Sylhet user carries the same flagship.
When you hire me there is no chain for your idea to get lost in - which matters double when half the people on the call are in another country. I am the scoping call, the user flow, every screen in Figma, the app code, the bKash and Nagad integration, the SMS and push notifications, the Play Store and App Store submission, and the person who picks up on WhatsApp when a customer says checkout froze.
One senior operator, around five years building apps and web systems for Bangladeshi businesses, one thread from first message to the live listing. In a Dhaka or Sylhet app shop the senior who pitched you is on the next sale by the time a junior opens your project, and your brief gets relayed through a salesman and a project manager until the owner abroad - who is funding it - is furthest from the truth of his own build.
Let me be honest about where I genuinely fit, because for mobile app development in Sylhet bd the word should mean something specific. My zone is well-scoped Android and cross-platform apps for real Sylhet businesses: food ordering and delivery for restaurant groups, booking and instalment apps for travel and Hajj agencies, store and catalogue apps for retailers who live on Facebook, appointment apps for clinics, and customer apps tied to an admin panel the owner abroad can open. Pricing is in BDT and fixed after one call.
A simple one-platform app starts at the 50,000 BDT floor; a standard Android-plus-iOS app with bKash and an admin panel sits around 90,000; a production app with delivery flow, live tracking or multi-vendor is 1,50,000; genuinely complex custom builds (logistics, fintech-style, large marketplaces) start from 3,00,000 BDT. Always 50% advance, 50% on launch, and you approve the full design before code. If you need a 200-screen super-app with a 10-person team behind it, I will tell you straight to hire a larger shop.
Six things a serious Sylhet business gets from me that most local app shops quietly skip - because awards and follower counts do not run on a Vivo Y20.
Tested on 2-3GB RAM Walton and Symphony phones over patchy 4G in Sylhet, not just on a flagship over fibre. Your customer in Beanibazar opens it without it stuttering or eating his data.
Live bKash Tokenized Checkout, Nagad and SSLCommerz with proper IPN handling and refund flows - not a sandbox demo that breaks on the first real taka. The payment survives the redirect every time.
The customer app pairs with an admin panel the owner in the UK opens on his phone - orders, bookings, daily takings, push to customers - so he watches the Sylhet business live instead of hearing the numbers a month late.
Order-status, abandoned-cart, Hajj-instalment-due and festival-offer push notifications set up properly, plus SMS fallback - the cheap re-engagement channel most Sylhet apps launch without and regret.
You approve every screen in Figma before I write app code. If the checkout or booking flow does not match how your customer and your counter staff actually work, we fix it on paper, not in a paid rebuild after launch.
I handle Play Console setup, the privacy policy, screenshots in the right sizes and the Apple review. On launch you get the source code and the signing keystore in writing - never locked to me, even with the owner abroad.
There is a habit here that flashy app companies forget to plan for, and it is pure Sylhet-and-BD: your app spreads as an APK on Facebook and WhatsApp long before anyone searches the Play Store for it. The owner's brother in Bradford posts the download link in a family group, a cousin shares it in a Sylhet buy-sell page, and a hundred installs happen from a file sideloaded onto a Symphony phone.
If the app is bloated, demands a sign-up before showing a single product, or dies the moment the user is on 3G in Sobhanighat, that first wave of word-of-mouth is wasted and it never recovers. So I build the first screen to load fast and useful with no login wall, ship a clean signed APK you can share the day before the store listing goes live, and keep the install size small enough that nobody on a budget phone thinks twice.
The Play Store and App Store listings still get done properly - but the real launch in Sylhet happens in a Facebook group, and the app has to be ready for that crowd first.
The second thing I refuse to ignore is that in Sylhet the price quote bends the moment a firm smells UK money behind the app. Walk past the 'IT solutions' signboards on Zindabazar and you will find the same pattern: a salesperson, a junior who learned Flutter off YouTube, and a number that doubles when the brother paying is in London and cannot drop in to chase the work.
For an app project funded sight-unseen from abroad, that risk is sharp - an inflated quote, a half-built app stuck at 70% for nine months, and a developer who goes quiet after the advance clears. I work the opposite way.
I quote the same BDT number whether you are funded by a tea-stall in Ambarkhana or a restaurant chain in East London, I do the scoping call across the UK-Sylhet time difference so the owner abroad is actually on it, and the price is fixed after that one call - 50,000 BDT floor, 90,000 and 1,50,000 tiers, custom from 3,00,000, always 50% advance and 50% on launch.
The best mobile app development in Sylhet, by the only test that matters, is the app your customers still open and your owner abroad still trusts a year after launch - and that comes from one senior person who priced you straight and learned how your customer buys before he built for it.
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Straight answers to what Sylhet owners ask me on the first WhatsApp message about an app - usually with the family abroad listening in.
I price in plain BDT after one call, never a number that quietly grows because there is UK money behind it. A simple one-platform app (a catalogue or basic order app, login, listing, light backend) starts at the 50,000 BDT floor. A standard Android-plus-iOS app with bKash/Nagad and an admin panel is around 90,000 BDT. A production app with full delivery flow, live tracking or multi-vendor sits at 1,50,000 BDT. Genuinely complex custom builds start from 3,00,000 BDT.
Always 50% advance and 50% on launch - bKash, Nagad or bank transfer. The exact figure depends on Android-only vs both platforms, which integrations you need, and whether the owner abroad needs a live admin dashboard.
For almost every Sylhet business I start Android-first, because roughly 95% of your local customers are on Android - Walton, Symphony, Vivo, low-cost Samsung. I build cross-platform (Flutter or React Native) so adding a clean iOS build later is cheap, and that iOS build mainly matters for your diaspora side: the UK or US relatives who pay, order or check bookings on an iPhone. If your audience is mostly local, I will tell you to launch Android, prove demand, and add iOS once revenue justifies it - not sell you the more expensive option on day one.
Yes, and for most Sylhet apps that is the whole point. The customer app pairs with an admin panel and dashboard the owner abroad opens on his own phone - live orders, bookings, daily takings, stock, and the ability to send a push or offer to customers himself - so he stops finding out how the Sylhet business did a month late. I also run the project across both sides: the manager here for day-to-day detail, the owner in London or Birmingham for approvals and budget, on WhatsApp or IMO across the time difference. No account manager losing messages between Sylhet and the UK.
Yes. I do live bKash Tokenized Checkout (not just the demo sandbox), Nagad merchant API, SSLCommerz and Stripe for international cards - which matters when a UK relative is paying for an order delivered in Sylhet. I handle the OTP flow, IPN webhooks, refund cases and transaction reconciliation so your counter staff and the owner abroad can match payouts to orders without manual chasing. Payments are the part most cheap BD apps fake with a sandbox flow and it breaks on the first real transaction - I build it for real money from the start.
A 50,000 BDT one-platform app takes around 3-4 weeks. A 90,000 BDT standard Android-plus-iOS app with bKash and an admin panel takes 5-7 weeks. A 1,50,000 BDT production app with delivery flow, push and Play Store submission takes 8-10 weeks. Apple's review adds 1-2 weeks on the iOS side. I give you a clean signed APK to start sharing on Facebook before the store listing is even approved, share a written timeline on day one, and update it weekly - no 'next week, sir' loops.
Yes, 100%, in writing. On launch you get the full source code pushed to your own GitHub or GitLab, the signing keystore in a password-protected file, the Play Console and Apple Developer accounts transferred to your name, deployment notes and a short handover document - plus 30 days of free fixes for genuine bugs. If next year you want a local Sylhet developer to take over, they have everything on day one. Nothing is held hostage to my goodwill, which matters even more when the owner funding it is abroad and can't drop in to demand the files.
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