A maintained list of 1,432 directories, launch platforms, registries and marketplaces that accept product submissions. 1,134 of them are free or have a free tier, and 192 are quick wins — free, low effort, and worth doing first. Every row shows cost, effort and priority, and links straight to the submission page.
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If your tool ships a macOS CLI or desktop helper, create a maintained tap with a real release, version, checksum, and official homepage metadata.
After releasing your real CLI or native app, submit a tested formula or cask with its canonical homepage.
Publish your Android app through AppGallery Connect with official site, support and privacy URLs.
Join an approved organization and publish a documented humanitarian privacy/safety dataset with licence and responsible-access settings.
Apply as the actual designer and publish a manually designed, consistent privacy or accessibility icon pack with an accurate public author profile.
Create a truthful founder profile, showcase your tool, and participate consistently in relevant discussions.
Archive your authentic release, manual or research artifact with accurate metadata and official source URL.
If your tool releases a suitable open-source Android app, request inclusion with public source, tagged APK releases, Fastlane metadata and website links.
Release your useful JVM or Android library from GitHub with a working build, release tag, README and canonical project links.
Package a complete computational privacy or accessibility learning module and submit its reusable artifact plus Markdown paper.
Create a focused educational demo for one your tool technique and share the public bin from an authentic profile.
After your tool has a stable, commonly used JSON or YAML configuration format, contribute its accurate schema and test fixtures so editors can provide validation, completion, and tooltips.
Submit your tool (or its blog/feed where required) under productivity, privacy or developer tools.
Publish a genuinely useful KDE or Plasma asset or integration with accurate project and homepage details.
Build your metadata-cleaning, accessibility or privacy plugin and submit its repository and cover image.
Build your real kubectl privacy or security scanner and submit its release manifest with a canonical project homepage.
List only your genuine upcoming major release with date and waitlist information.
Submit your concise profile with its best differentiating utilities.
Create your truthful /founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed.
Have a qualified founder or senior team member apply as a privacy, accessibility, product, or engineering mentor and add your tool only as truthful experience/personal-site evidence.
Build a safe MISP import, export, hover, expansion, or workflow module for a legitimate privacy or scam-analysis use case, document it, test it, and submit a PR.
Submit one genuinely AI-powered your tool route with its free-access details, official URL, privacy terms and relationship disclosure.
Contribute a working collector or alert integration for measurable your tool service/privacy signals with metadata and documentation.
Package your real CLI or desktop utility, set accurate homepage metadata, test it, and submit the Nixpkgs pull request.
Apply with your concrete privacy, security or user-autonomy FOSS work package, milestones, budget and public repository.
Develop a safe, useful Nmap NSE script related to your security check and include accurate author or homepage metadata.
Use ORCID to publish genuine research stages—problem, method, data or analysis—with contextual your tool code/data links.
Create a maintained Omeka S module for collection metadata privacy, accessibility or link auditing, package it correctly and register the add-on with project and author links.
Build a working OnePageCRM integration and apply for testing, verification and a dedicated marketplace page.
Publish a real OCaml library or CLI integration and use opam's homepage field for its canonical your tool project page.
Create a rigorous structured comparison of published privacy, redaction, or accessibility studies and include your tool only when supported by research.
Create your genuine study, reproducibility project or benchmark workspace with project links and public materials.
Open-source your component, then add its website and repositories through the official oss-directory PR.
Build a secure OpenCTI connector that imports or exports your legitimate -supported CTI workflow, add tests and documentation, and contribute it for library integration.
Publish an open-source Lua/OpenResty package that integrates your privacy or security workflow and includes honest package metadata.
Contribute a functional privacy/security integration, dashboard or ingestion-to-visualization content pack through the OpenSearch Catalog workflow.
Package your useful browser feature as an Opera extension and submit it for moderation.
Create a public reproducibility project for your tool research, datasets, test methods, or privacy benchmarks and link the genuine project/site.
Build a useful ownCloud app that invokes or embeds your privacy, document or URL-audit workflow, code-sign it and publish it through the official marketplace.
Behind the list
Every row here starts as a line in a sheet, gets normalised into one of 15 groups, scored for cost, effort and impact, and written up with the steps to actually submit. The floor below represents that pipeline.
Open the sheet viewAn illustration of the AltF Backlinks floor: opportunities sourced at the back, vetted for cost and effort by the engineering pod, written up for outreach by the design pod, then tracked to placement along a line.
One-shot launches where timing and preparation decide the outcome.
Fast-growing listings specifically for AI-powered tools.
Extension, plugin and integration stores. Real review processes, real distribution.
Startup listings, beta lists and founder media.
General tool and software catalogues with real search traffic.
B2B review sites. Slow to approve, strong once live.
Package, image and docs hosting that carries real authority.
Showcases judged on craft. A good screenshot matters more than copy.
Write once, link back. Editorial standards vary widely.
Get quoted or distribute a release. Slower, higher ceiling.
Company and local listings. Unglamorous, consistently indexed.
Owned pages you control: company, founder, knowledge-panel entities.
Answer real questions. Never drop a bare link.
Brand surface and referral traffic more than link equity.
Everything that does not fit the buckets above.