Gaurav Tiwari

I Finally Built a Shop (Here's What's In It)

For 17 years, I’ve been giving things away on the internet.

Tutorials. Guides. WordPress plugins. Math textbooks I spent months writing. All of it, free, scattered across blog posts and GitHub repos where maybe 5% of the people who could use them would ever find them.

That changes today. I built a proper shop on gauravtiwari.org.

Before you close this tab/email: most of it is still free. This isn’t a pivot to “premium everything.” It’s me finally organizing years of work into one place where people can actually find it.

What’s in the shop

Two types of products right now: books and guides. WordPress plugins are coming next.

The math books

This is the part I’m most excited about. I have an M.Sc. in Mathematics. I was an INSPIRE Scholar (top 1% nationally). I’ve written serious academic material that’s been sitting in LaTeX files on my computer, doing nothing for anyone.

Not anymore. These are now free downloads:

That’s 12 books. All free PDFs. No email gates. No “enter your phone number first.” Just download them.

I wrote these because India produces brilliant students who often lack access to well-organized reference material in English. If even one UPSC aspirant or B.Sc. student finds these useful, they’ve done their job.

The guides

Two marketing guides for people building online businesses:

These aren’t fluffy “10 tips to get started” PDFs. They’re based on 17 years of doing this professionally, across 850+ clients, with real numbers behind the advice.

Why now

Honestly? Because I kept building things and never had a single place to put them.

The math books were in a TeX folder. The guides were attached to random blog posts. The plugins (ACF Blocks, Core Forms, Dynamic Month & Year, Functionalities, SyncPoint CRM) live on GitHub with no proper distribution.

I wanted one URL where someone could see everything I’ve made and grab what they need. That’s gauravtiwari.org/shop.

What’s coming next

WordPress plugins with proper licensing and auto-updates. I’ve been building the infrastructure for this (FluentCart on the backend, license managers in every plugin). When a plugin update drops, your site will know about it automatically. No more manually downloading zips from GitHub.

The plugin lineup:

Some will stay free. Some will have paid tiers. All of them are tools I built because I needed them on real projects and nothing else did the job properly.

The philosophy

No subscriptions. No recurring fees. No “but wait there’s more” nonsense.

If something is free, it’s free. If something is priced, it’s because I spent serious time on it and think it’s worth what I’m asking. That’s it.

I’ve been on both sides of the “everything should be free” debate. Free is great for distribution. But free also means the creator eats the cost of support, updates, and maintenance forever. That’s not sustainable, and anyone who’s maintained an open-source project knows it.

So the model is simple: give away the stuff that should be free (reference material, educational content), charge fairly for the stuff that saves people real time and money (professional tools), and never lock basic functionality behind a paywall.

Browse the shop at gauravtiwari.org/shop. Grab what’s useful. Tell me what’s missing.

And if you’re an SETM student anywhere in the world reading this: those books are for you. Take them.