Intch

I'm here after receiving their email “Discover remote side projects”: which goes to a subscription form that has some kind of UX dark patterns to catch the user without providing the real advantages of the service. I can't pay for something based only on a description of checkmarking my pain points, without examples of how the service works and may benefit me.

Don't waste your time with a subscription if you find yourself interested in their misleading ads. Their ads suggest that this is a place for employers to hire contractors and contractors looking for gigs. They wont let you browse any opportunities until you pay for a subscription and that alone should make you runaway but my curiosity got the better of me after a week of pondering. I purchased a lifetime subscription only to find out this is a simple networking app. To top it off, they wont refund you!!! So now I have this lifetime subscription for an app that is useless.

Misleading ad. You can’t find a job there

Makes you instantly pay for their services without a refund option available even in the EU region. Also a big minus that it does not exactly tell you what you are going to get, just here's how much you can approximately make. All profiles are Chat GPT written which also can be a red-flag for successfully networking or generating clients.

As a product manager, I have identified so many dark patterns during the onboarding, I am not even curious to pay for the subscription to validate my assumptions about them. Reading all the other comments from people who purchased, I realized all the red flags are real. No platform offering real value will hide behind a pay wall.

poor app design. very weird way of matching people. any meaningful connection is hidden behind boatloads of useless question. fraudulent pricing and customer support. stay away.

Anyone who has viewed lots of similar ads over time will rightly be very wary of a site that offers nothing until you've paid up. I was almost tempted to spend money, until I saw other negative reviews here and decided to take a deep breath and look again at Intch. Second time round, I decided it's a hook'em and reel them in type of site, especially when none of the "positive reviews" provide any detail to show they are genuine, meaningful reviews. If that impression is wrong, then Intch have only themselves to blame and need to do some serious work to prove their worth.

I just went through the reg flow, and the very last screen requires you to purchase a subscription. Feels very scammy, and was a waste of time. If this was a legit service, there should be some type of free tier to try it out. Asking users to pay without proving your services/results is not a good business strategy. I'm sure they can do better.

The application is completely useless, the server response is bad and there are frequent errors. Don't waste your money because you won't get any benefits. (It may be a complete scam for taking subscriptions)

Kind scammy that they ask for a subscription without showcasing what kind of offerings they have in their platform - I feel it's misleading or a scam.