Who actually builds it
What 'company' should mean for a Motijheel store
The owner of a thirty-year-old Motijheel trading firm rarely searches for an online store herself. The son does. He has watched the family business move hardware, stationery, electronics or imported goods through phone calls and a salesman's memory since he was a teenager, and he knows the order book is one resignation away from chaos. He wants to put it online — and he has been told to hire a 'company' rather than a freelancer, because a company sounds accountable. Then he gets the agency quote: a five-line spec, a number with no breakdown, and an account manager who has never sold a carton of anything. This page is for him.
Here is the honest version of what 'company' buys you on a project this size, and what it does not. It does not buy you a better-built store — the actual coding is done by one or two people regardless of how big the logo on the proposal is. What it is supposed to buy you is accountability: a name to call when checkout breaks at month-end, a contract that survives a staff member leaving, and someone who owns the result. The trouble is that in a large shop your project is one of forty, your senior developer gets reassigned, and the account manager between you and the build slowly turns your requirements into a brief that loses half their meaning.
I am RH Fardin, a solo website designer and developer in Bangladesh with around five years building the kind of stores Dhaka actually runs on. I operate as a one-person company on purpose: the person who answers your message is the person who designs the store, wires the payments, sets the order panel and ships it. There is no junior learning on your project, no offshore handoff, no layer translating what you said into what got built. The accountability you wanted from 'a company' is sharper here, not weaker — there is exactly one name on the work, and it is on the work.
Pricing is fixed and written down so the breakdown is never a mystery. The floor is 50,000 BDT for a real, launched store; tiers move to 90,000 and 1,50,000 BDT as you add variants, accounts and gateway integration; fully custom builds start at 3,00,000 BDT. Payment is fifty per cent advance and fifty per cent on launch, and I do not move into development until you sign off the design. That is the whole arrangement — no retainer you forgot you were paying, no scope that quietly doubles after the advance clears.
See pricing in BDT