A web application is software, not a brochure site — and in Khulna almost nobody scopes it honestly before they quote.
I build custom web applications for Khulna businesses that have outgrown spreadsheets, WhatsApp groups and paper khata — order systems for shrimp and seafood exporters, booking and patient portals for clinics near Sonadanga, student dashboards for coaching centres by the universities, and internal tools for traders along Sir Iqbal Road. One senior developer who scopes, designs, codes and ships the whole thing.
Simpler web apps start at 50,000 BDT; genuinely custom builds — real logins, roles, dashboards, databases — start at 3,00,000 BDT. 50% advance, 50% on launch via bKash, Nagad or bank. You approve the design before I write logic. ~5 years building in Bangladesh.
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The most expensive mistake I see in Khulna is paying for the wrong thing. A trader asks three 'companies' for a web application, gets three numbers between 40,000 and four lakh taka, and has no idea why — because none of them stopped to ask what the software actually has to do. A web application is not a fancy website.
It is a system: people log in, do work, and the data changes — orders move through stages, stock goes up and down, a clinic books and reschedules patients, a coaching centre tracks attendance and results. If all you need is pages that tell buyers who you are, you do not need a web application and you should not be charged for one.
If you are running your business out of a dozen Excel files and a WhatsApp group, a real web app is exactly what you need — and that is where I do my best work.
I am RH Fardin, a senior developer who has spent about five years building web applications and sites in Bangladesh, working solo on purpose. With most Khulna 'companies', a salesperson quotes you, a junior writes the code, and there is no one person who actually understands your whole system when it breaks. With me, the person who maps your workflow on the first call is the person who designs the screens, writes the database, builds the logic, and answers your message when an order does not save.
For software — where a single wrong assumption about how your business works can poison the whole build — having one experienced brain on the entire thing is not a nice-to-have. It is the difference between an app you use daily and a half-finished one that gathers dust.
Khulna's economy gives web applications real jobs to do. Shrimp and seafood exporters need to track lots, grades, cold-storage batches and shipment status — and let foreign importers see and enquire. Jute and agro traders need stock and supplier ledgers that more than one staff member can update at once. Private clinics and diagnostic centres near Khulna Medical need appointment booking, patient records and report delivery. Coaching centres around Khulna University and KUET need student portals, fee tracking and result dashboards. These are not template jobs. Each one is a workflow I have to understand before I build it, and I scope every project around the actual work your staff does — not around a feature list copied from a Dhaka demo.
On money I will be blunt, because in Khulna 'koto taka?' is the first question and most quotes dodge it. Lighter web apps — a single-role tool, a booking form with an admin view, a basic catalogue with enquiries — can land in the 50,000 to 1,50,000 BDT tiers.
But a genuine custom web application — multiple user roles, secure logins, dashboards, reports, a real database your business depends on — starts at 3,00,000 BDT, and anyone quoting you 60,000 for that is selling you a website with login slapped on. Payment is 50% advance, 50% on launch, by bKash, Nagad or bank. And the design-approval guarantee applies before I write a line of business logic: you sign off the screens and flows first, so you are never funding software you have not seen.
Software lives or dies on the parts buyers never see — the data model, the logins, the way roles work. These six are where a one-person, senior build beats a quote-and-handoff agency for a Khulna web application.
I map how your Khulna business actually runs — who does what, in what order — before any screen is designed. The app fits your real process, not a generic template that forces your staff to work around it.
Owner, manager, staff, customer — each sees only what they should. Proper secure authentication and permissions, the part most cheap 'web apps' in Khulna skip entirely until it leaks data.
Your orders, stock, patients or students live in a structured database built to grow — not in a pile of WordPress posts. Clean data now means reports and integrations later don't fall apart.
Not just a pay button — payments wired into your app's logic: deposits against an order, fees marked paid on a student record, status updated automatically the way Khulna customers expect to transact.
I build the version that earns money first and ship it, instead of quoting a bloated dream you abandon at 60%. You launch a working tool, then we add what you actually end up needing.
When something breaks in live use — and software always does early — the person who built every layer fixes it. No ticket queue, no junior reverse-engineering a senior's code they never read.
Here is the line I draw on the first call, because getting it right saves Khulna owners lakhs. If your only job is to tell buyers who you are and let them contact you, that is a website — it starts at 50,000 BDT and you should not pay web-application money for it.
If you need a small amount of interactivity — an online booking with an admin panel, a product catalogue with enquiry tracking, a single-role internal form — that is a light web application and it sits in the 50,000 to 1,50,000 BDT tiers. But the moment you need multiple people logging in with different permissions, data that drives decisions, dashboards, reports, and a system your daily operations depend on, you are buying real custom software, and that starts at 3,00,000 BDT.
The number is not the point; the honesty is. A company that quotes a web application without first asking what the software has to do is guessing, and you pay for the guess later in rebuilds.
The other thing I am straight about is build-versus-buy. Sometimes the right answer for a Khulna business is not a custom web application at all — it is an existing tool you can rent for a few hundred taka a month. I will tell you when that is true, even though it means I do not get the project, because steering you into a 3,00,000 BDT build you did not need would end my reputation in a city this connected.
Custom is worth it when your workflow is genuinely your own — the way a shrimp exporter tracks grades and cold-chain batches, the way a specific coaching centre weights its mock results — and no off-the-shelf product fits without forcing you to change how you work. When that is the case, I scope an MVP that does the core job, ship it, and grow it from there. That is how you end up with software you actually use, not a lakh-taka monument to a feature list.
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The questions Khulna owners actually ask me when they think they need a web application — starting, as always, with price.
It depends entirely on whether you need a website with a bit of interactivity or real software. Light web apps — a booking system with an admin view, a catalogue with enquiry tracking, a single-role internal tool — fall in the 50,000, 90,000 or 1,50,000 BDT tiers. A genuine custom web application with multiple user roles, secure logins, dashboards, reports and a real database starts at 3,00,000 BDT. I will not give you a number until I understand what the app has to do, because a number without that is meaningless. Payment is 50% advance and 50% on launch, via bKash, Nagad or bank transfer.
A website mainly shows information — pages about your business that visitors read and then contact you. A web application is software people log in and do work in: data changes, orders move through stages, stock updates, appointments get booked, results get recorded. Rule of thumb — if you only need to be found and contacted, you need a website (from 50,000 BDT). If you need to run part of your operation through it with logins and live data, you need a web application, and the real custom ones start at 3,00,000 BDT.
The most useful ones track what spreadsheets and WhatsApp can't anymore: lots and grades, cold-storage batches, supplier and buyer ledgers, order and shipment status, and an importer-facing view so foreign buyers can see availability and send enquiries. Multiple staff update the same data without overwriting each other. That is real custom software — it sits at 3,00,000 BDT and up depending on how many roles and reports you need — not a 60,000 taka website with a login bolted on.
Yes, and in an app it means more than a pay button. Payments get wired into your logic — a deposit recorded against a specific order, a student's fee marked paid on their record, an appointment confirmed once payment clears, statuses updated automatically. That is how Khulna customers expect to pay, on mobile, and how your staff expect the system to reflect it without manual entry. Exactly how it is built depends on your flow, which we scope together first.
Only me, start to finish. I scope your workflow, design the screens, write the database and logic, and support it after launch — about five years doing only this. With software that matters more than with a brochure site: one wrong assumption about how your business works can break the whole build, and with a quote-and-handoff agency nobody owns that mistake. With me there is one brain on every layer, and you have my WhatsApp, not a ticket number.
Sometimes a ready-made tool you rent monthly is the right call, and I will tell you so even though I do not get the project — pushing you into a 3,00,000 BDT build you do not need would wreck my name in a city this connected. Custom is worth it only when your workflow is genuinely your own and no off-the-shelf product fits without forcing you to change how you work. When that is the case, I scope a lean first version that does the core job, ship it, and grow it from there instead of selling you a bloated feature list you abandon halfway.
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