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Why Gulshan businesses pick a senior solo designer over an agency
A Gulshan office on Road 11 once showed me an agency quote for website design and development in Gulshan. It was 1,80,000 BDT for six weeks and three pages. The proposal opened with the line 'in today's digital landscape'. The agency didn't know which junior would work on it. It didn't show a single past project that matched the buyer the client wanted to reach.
That's the standard problem in this neighbourhood. Agencies pitch hard and hand the work to a junior. Then the founder spends two months on WhatsApp chasing screenshots. I am one person. The person who quotes the project builds the project.
I've spent about five years designing and developing websites for Bangladeshi businesses. A good share of that work has been for clients in Gulshan, Banani and Baridhara. They include corporate consultancies, law firms, F&B groups, real estate developers and importer-distributors.
The pattern in Gulshan is fairly steady. The founder is busy. The brand already exists in print and on the office wall. The website is the one asset that hasn't caught up. My job is to make the site match the actual room a visitor would walk into.
Every project follows the same flow. It starts with a 45 to 60 minute discovery call on Zoom or Google Meet. Then you get a written scope and a fixed price in BDT. You pay a 50% advance by bank transfer, bKash or Nagad. I design first in Figma, and you see the home page and one inner page before I write any code.
You approve, and I build. We test on a real Bangladeshi 4G connection, on the Samsung and iPhone models your buyers actually use. Then we launch. The whole thing usually takes 3 to 6 weeks, depending on the tier.
Here are the tiers in BDT, in plain numbers. 50,000 buys a tight 4 to 5 page presence site that loads fast and converts. 90,000 buys a 7 to 10 page corporate site with proper services, a case study and a contact flow. 1,50,000 buys a 12 to 15 page setup with a blog, multiple languages or a basic CMS.
From 3,00,000, you get a fully custom build, such as a web app, complex integrations, a custom CMS or ecommerce. You pay 50% on signing and 50% on launch. That's the whole price list.
See pricing in BDT