How pricing really works in Dhanmondi
Why two "similar" websites can quote 35,000 BDT and 2,00,000 BDT
Ask about the website design and development price in Dhanmondi, and clients open with the same line. "Bhai, ekta website korte koto taka lagbe?" The honest answer is that it depends on what's behind the homepage. Two cafes on the same Satmasjid Road stretch can need wildly different sites.
One needs a five-page menu site with a reservation form. The other needs an online ordering system tied to bKash, Nagad and a delivery rider app. Those are not the same product. They should not be the same price.
Most cheap quotes floating around Dhanmondi are a Bootstrap template, three stock photos and a logo crammed into a header. It looks fine on the freelancer's laptop. Now picture a buyer on a mid-range Android, scrolling at a traffic light near Kalabagan. It loads slowly, the buttons are tiny and your contact form leaks straight to spam.
You paid 18,000 BDT, and your bounce rate is 84 percent. That is not cheap. That is expensive in a different currency.
I price the way a tailor on Road 5 prices a suit. Measurements first, fabric second, then a number you can write a cheque against. For combined website design and development in Dhanmondi, the floor is 50,000 BDT for a focused brochure site.
90,000 BDT covers a serious multi-page site for a restaurant, clinic, school or service business. 1,50,000 BDT covers a site that needs WooCommerce, real bookings or a member area. Custom builds start at 3,00,000 BDT.
What you pay me, you pay one person. It's the same senior who handled the strategy call, drew the wireframes and wrote the front-end code. He'll still be there at 11 PM the night before your launch. No project manager forwards emails. No junior copy-pastes from a template marketplace. I have about five years of doing this, and Dhanmondi is one of the markets I know best.
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