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"Custom development" vs a theme with the colours changed: how to tell what a BD company is really selling
In Bangladesh, almost everyone selling websites calls their work "development," so the word has stopped meaning much. Here is the line that matters. Is the site built to do what your business needs? Or is a ready-made theme bent to roughly fit and called custom? A theme job is fast and cheap on day one. But then you want something the theme wasn't made for. That might be a specific booking flow, a particular product filter, or a back-end your other tools can talk to.
You hit a wall, and the only fix is paying to redo it properly. Real development means the site is built around your needs from the start. So growing it later means adding to something, not fighting it.
Before you pay the advance, ask any web development company in BD two plain questions. First: can I get the full code and logins at launch, or does my site stay on your account? If they hesitate, your site is hostage, and every future change goes through them. Second: who, by name, writes my code, and can I talk to that exact person now? "Our team" usually means whoever is cheapest that week.
With me, both answers are simple. I write your code myself, you have my WhatsApp from day one, and you own everything at handover. My pricing is just as plain. Tiers are 50,000, 90,000 and 1,50,000 BDT, and fully custom builds start from 3,00,000 BDT. You pay 50% advance and 50% on launch. There is also a design-approval step, so you sign off on the look before I write the real build.