Techcream
IT Agency
I co-founded Techcream with my college friend Aditya. We are a 100% remote team of 10 people. We build software and SaaS products for businesses around the world. Four years in, still going strong.
Founder · Builder · Seeker
Chandra Tiwari
I've been trying to build something meaningful since I was 19.
Still at it. Still learning.
Who I am
Building since I was a kid in a small village
I'm Chandra — I grew up in Kanour, a village in Katni, Madhya Pradesh. School was a CBSE private school in the nearby town of Barhi. In 2015, I moved to Jabalpur for college, and that's where I lived in a hostel and started my first business with my savings and a Bajaj Discover motorcycle. I've been building ever since. Not always successfully. But always genuinely.
I run a remote tech team. I'm building a SaaS product. I make sure I get enough sleep, learn something new every day, and stay focused on seeking the truth, not overcomplicating things.
Most people I meet think I'm 22. I'm almost 31. I've stopped explaining.
What drives me is simple: I want to build things that actually help people. Not just products that look good on a pitch deck. Real things. For real people.
And somewhere alongside all of that — I'm trying to understand who I am. Not as a founder. As a human being.
What I believe
A few things I hold onto
Business and life are not separate things.
The way you build your company is the way you live your life. One reflects the other.
Most founders are building fast but not building right.
Speed without clarity is just organised chaos. I've been there. I know what it costs.
Fulfillment is not a reward you get after success.
It has to be part of the journey itself. A founder who is not fulfilled is just a very busy, very stressed person.
Relationships matter more than reach.
I would rather have ten real conversations than ten thousand followers who don't know me.
The best thing you can build is trust.
With your team. With your clients. With yourself. Everything else follows.
What I do
Where my time goes
GrowthAsist.com
LinkedIn Growth System
My current focus. I'm building a system that helps founders and creators grow on LinkedIn without spending hours every day figuring out what to post. Still early. Very real.
The Fulfilled Founder
Newsletter
A space I'm creating for founders who want calm, sustainable growth — in their business and in their life. Not hustle culture. Not motivational quotes. Just honest thinking about what it means to build something without losing yourself.
On the internet I write and talk about AI, SaaS, product thinking, marketing, and growth. But mostly about the mindset behind all of it. Follow along on LinkedIn →
My journey
From a hostel room to here
2016
The tiffin startup
I was living in a hostel in Jabalpur. The tiffin food was oily, too spicy, and felt unhygienic half the time. I thought — what if I could connect housewives who wanted extra income with students who wanted home-cooked food? I started it with my savings, scaled to 10 deliveries a day on my Bajaj Discover, went door to door talking to sellers and students. It didn't work. I couldn't scale it. But I learned what it actually feels like to go out and sell something. That lesson is still with me.
2017
Learning to code
I taught myself web development. Got my first client outside India for $10 — a simple static website. That $10 was one of the most important moments of my life. I realised the world was bigger than Jabalpur.
2018–19
First proper work
Did freelancing on the side while working a job. Kept charging more. Kept learning. Got a big break from a marketing company. Understood what real value delivery looks like.
2020
Going all in
Lockdown happened. I quit my job, started Coffee to Business alone, got my first project, delivered it, then got another. Invited my friend Aditya to join me as co-founder. We figured it out together.
2022–23
Building Techcream
Grew from zero to good revenue in two years. Built a remote team. Served clients across the world. Did annual retreats — Nepal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Goa. Learned that managing a team and managing yourself are equally hard.
2022–24
Angel investing, and the lessons it cost
Alongside Techcream, I put real money into friends' startups — a local bus and daily-commute travel business, a cafe and OTT venture, a retail clothing brand, plus some local lending and trading bets on the side. Some of it taught me how businesses outside software actually work. A lot of it I'd do differently now. It's part of the journey, not a footnote.
2024–25
The product question
AI changed everything. Clients started building their own products. I realised I had spent years building software for others but never seriously built a product for myself. That scared me. Then it motivated me.
Now
Building for myself
Moved to Indore. Experimenting every day. Building GrowthAsist. Learning marketing, distribution, and what it means to sell something I actually created. The hardest chapter yet. Probably the most important one.
Beyond work
What I do when I'm not building
Founder is not the only thing I am. These are the things that keep me whole.
Music, bhajans & instruments
Singing, playing instruments, sitting in on bhajans. The thing that has nothing to do with building, and is exactly why I need it.
Writing code, just for myself
Not every line I write is for a client or a product. Some of it is just me figuring something out because I'm curious.
Deep tech & innovation
I spend a lot of time reading and thinking about where technology is actually headed, not just what's trending this week.
Spiritual conversations & life lessons
Going deeper into questions about life, meaning, and who I'm becoming. Long conversations on this are some of my favourites.
Who I want to meet
If you're building something, I want to know
Not just tech founders. Anyone who has decided to take responsibility for creating something that helps other people. A product, a service, a community, a small business, even just an idea you're still working up the courage to start.
Especially if you're asking the questions beyond the business ones. What kind of life am I building? Am I taking care of the people around me? Am I becoming the person I want to be while doing all of this?
If that sounds like you — let's just talk. No pitch. No agenda. Just a real conversation.
I respond to every message personally.
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