About website development in Sylhet
The real question in Sylhet isn't who builds it — it's who can still touch it in a year.
Almost every Sylhet owner who comes to me has the same scar, and it is not the price. It is the orphaned site. They paid someone once — a cousin's friend, a part-timer, a small shop in Bandar Bazar — got something live, and then the developer drifted off. Now they want one change: a new room rate, a new package, a phone number that changed, a price that went up. And there is nobody. The original builder has stopped replying, the admin password is lost or was never handed over, the code is a tangle nobody else will agree to open, and the hosting is renewing automatically on a card or bKash they barely remember setting up. The site is technically alive and practically dead. That is the Sylhet website-development problem in one sentence: not getting a site built, but being able to keep running it once whoever built it is gone.
It hits harder here than in most cities because of where the money comes from. A large share of Sylhet's businesses — the hotels and guesthouses, the restaurants in Zindabazar, the apartment and land projects, the clinics, the shops — are funded or co-owned by family abroad. The person who paid for the website is often a probashi in London or the Gulf who will never log into an admin panel, and the person running the shop day to day may not be technical at all. So a 'developed' site that needs a developer for every tiny edit is a slow trap. It looks fine on launch day, then every small change becomes a favour you have to beg, a fee you have to pay, or a thing that just never gets done. Six months later the site shows last year's prices and a closed branch, and quietly works against you instead of for you.
So when I develop a site for Sylhet, I build for the day after launch as hard as I build for launch itself. One senior person — me — scopes it, structures the pages, writes the front-end and the back-end, wires the forms and the bKash or Nagad details, and sets up the hosting and domain in your name. But I also build it so a non-technical owner, or whoever you hand the shop to, can actually run it: change a price, add a package, swap a photo, update a phone number, without calling a developer for every line. The code is clean and structured on purpose, so if you and I ever part ways, the next person can open it without cursing and rebuilding from scratch. That is what 'development' should mean — not just that it works once, but that it stays workable.
I have spent around five years building for Bangladeshi businesses — real traders, hoteliers, clinics and agents, not faceless brands — and the pricing is fixed and honest. Website development starts at 50,000 BDT for a focused, properly built site; 90,000 BDT for a larger build with more pages, a blog and custom work; 1,50,000 BDT for a full bilingual Bangla-English site with a basic booking or shop flow. Genuinely custom development — a real booking engine, a property listing system, a member portal, a back end built from scratch — starts from 3,00,000 BDT. Always 50% advance and 50% on launch, by bKash, Nagad or bank transfer, and you approve the full design before I write a single line. If your honest budget is under 50,000 BDT, I will say so on the first call rather than ship you another site you'll be stuck with.
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