Blog

Notes on how we scope, design, build and run digital products, written by the people doing the work.

11 min read

Build vs buy software: when a build pays off

How a Bangladesh business decides between a subscription and a custom build: split the taka and dollar ledgers, price three years, and know the triggers that send a buyer from a SaaS to a build.

  • software
  • product-strategy
  • pricing
  • bangladesh

11 min read

How much user research before you build?

Which assumptions to test before paying for an app or web product in Bangladesh, how a round is recruited and run in Dhaka, the Facebook-page demand test, and when to stop.

  • user-research
  • product-strategy
  • startups
  • bangladesh

10 min read

Does your mobile app need to work offline?

Bangladesh's mobile network turned into a spec, a feature-by-failure matrix, what an offline-first build adds, and a test protocol a proposal can carry.

  • mobile
  • offline-first
  • performance
  • bangladesh

9 min read

Website development cost in Bangladesh

A buyer’s guide to setting a realistic website budget, delivery window and first-year cost before comparing agency proposals.

  • web
  • pricing
  • delivery
  • bangladesh

6 min read

Core Web Vitals for business sites

What LCP, CLS and INP measure, why they matter to a business, and the handful of changes that actually move them on a marketing or product site.

  • performance
  • core-web-vitals
  • seo
  • web

6 min read

How we scope a web project

What happens between a first conversation and a signed scope at Scaledex: discovery, the scope document, how we estimate, and what to put in a brief.

  • process
  • scoping
  • estimates
  • briefs