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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. The line that actually matters is this: is the site being built to do what your business needs, or is a ready-made theme being bent to roughly fit and called custom?
A theme job is fast and cheap on day one, but the moment you want something the theme wasn't designed for, a specific booking flow, a particular product filter, a back-end the rest of your 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 requirement from the start, so growing it later is 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 at 50,000, 90,000 and 1,50,000 BDT, fully custom builds from 3,00,000 BDT, with 50% advance and 50% on launch, and a design-approval step so you sign off on the look before I write the real build.