About us

In 2025, the NussCafé opened in Lünen. Sercan read about it and looked it up on Google. There was no listing yet, so as a Local Guide he created one. A few weeks later he sat in the café, was allowed to take photos and advised the owners to start asking for reviews early.

They had already thought of that. But the family could not find the link where guests can review the café on Google, and Sercan could not find it on his phone straight away either. That became a free review link generator in July 2025. Soon someone asked whether it could be turned into a sign.

That question was the start of Regiofy. At first there was a simple website where you could order a QR code as a PDF. Because we wanted a proper tool for the long run, we switched it off and built Regiofy from scratch.

We talked to owners of small and larger businesses. Many did not know that Google had a profile of their business. Some had never claimed it, so nobody noticed when others changed it. In some profiles, the website field even pointed to another company, and nobody in the business knew.

Some reviews went unanswered. Sometimes there was no time, sometimes nobody knew what to write in reply to criticism they could not explain. At the hair salon run by Aladin's father in Waltrop it was the same: reviews were left without a reply for a while, and there was no sign telling customers where they could leave a review.

Sercan builds the technology. He has worked full-time in search engine optimization since 2018. Aladin looks after marketing and sales and has worked in logistics since 2008. We develop the content together. Regiofy is run by Minoka GbR, based in Waltrop, Germany.

A good business does not need to buy reviews. It asks its customers, all of them in the same way, not just the happy ones. How to do that in everyday work is something we explain in our blog: How to ask customers for a Google review.

Some owners fear a bad review. Yet other customers read the reply to learn how a business deals with criticism. Replying on impulse can lead to words you regret later. The AI in Regiofy suggests a factual reply. You check it, adjust it and post it on the platform yourself.

Regiofy is made for businesses with one or several locations, from cafés to trades, and for agencies that look after such businesses; less for chains with hundreds of branches.