A Social Enterprise Story

In Turkey, looking for a place to rent often feels like walking in the dark. You see a building from the outside, you spend a few minutes inside, and then you hope to live there for months — sometimes years. Does the heater really work? What are the neighbors like? Is the street safe at night? Do the pipes leak? You sign the lease without knowing any of it. Not because you don't deserve to know — but because no one is telling you.

EvSkor began with a thread on X. Someone wrote: "I wish we could read what people who actually lived in this building had to say." Hundreds of replies followed — stories of homes they regretted, broken boilers no one had fixed, leaks they were told to ignore. It turned out this wasn't just my problem; it was a shared one. And no one was solving it.

I lost count of how many times I read that thread. Then I gathered the talented friends around me — people who had spent years inside this system as renters themselves — and within a few weeks we had our first prototype. The first users we tested with wrote far more honest reviews than I had hoped for. People genuinely wanted to spare others the mistakes they had made.

Then the attention came. Online media noticed first, followed by national print and broadcast outlets. That confirmed something we already felt: this idea was bigger than us. Millions of renters across Turkey were aware of this gap — they were just waiting for someone to give it shape.

Today we are building EvSkor as a social enterprise. This is a deliberate choice. EvSkor's first job is not to maximize profit; it is to give renters a place where they can learn what they need to know before they move in. To narrow the information gap. To make the renting process a little more transparent for everyone. We need to make money — to live, to grow. But our purpose will always be this: to stand beside the renter.

I could not have walked this path alone. To the team who believed in me, who wrote code late into the night, who designed the screens, who read through legal texts, who collected feedback — without you, this would have stayed on paper. And to our early users who shared their first reviews and spoke honestly during the beta: you are the true heart of what we are building.

We are at the beginning of the road.