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.
Create startup profile linking canonical homepage.
Submit your tool name, URL, category, description and key features for a permanent directory page.
Suggest one mature your tool utility through the official Codeberg issue path only if it is an easy-to-use, privacy-respecting replacement for a clearly identified invasive service.
Publish a public Webmix of trustworthy privacy resources with clearly labeled your tool tiles among independent sources.
Contribute a substantive accessibility role template, translation or toolkit improvement with useful source attribution.
Create your truthful /founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed.
Create and verify an account, then submit your tool or individual qualifying tools.
Build your Trello Power-Up, register it, sign the developer agreement, and submit it.
Create a secure Docker Compose-based your tool self-hosted deployment, test it against TrueNAS app tooling and submit it to the official community catalog with useful documentation/resources.
Submit your tool (or its blog/feed where required) under productivity, privacy or developer tools.
Build and test your useful Visual Studio or Azure DevOps extension, then publish it with truthful homepage, repository and overview metadata.
Create a reproducible Tale containing your evaluation's data, code, environment, outputs, and narrative, then publish through a supported repository.
Submit your tool (or its blog/feed where required) under productivity, privacy or developer tools.
Submit a validated manifest for an installable Windows release with PackageUrl, PublisherUrl and support metadata.
Build an XWiki extension for a useful privacy, accessibility or link-audit workflow, release it as a valid XAR/JAR and publish or import it into the official extension repository.
Submit your tool with homepage URL, privacy-first positioning, logo, screenshots and accurate pricing.
Submit your tool only if its AI functionality is material, with correct category, URL, pricing and product facts.
Create a founder or editor portfolio and add a small selection of substantial your tool guides and externally published articles.
Submit your tool with homepage URL, privacy-first positioning, logo, screenshots and accurate pricing.
Propose a vendor-neutral, reproducible cloud-native security tutorial or case study, then write it in Markdown and submit the draft by pull request after community discussion.
Pitch an original evidence-backed privacy, scam, or cyber advisory based on genuine your tool research.
Publish a detailed hardware or IoT project that genuinely uses your tool, with code, parts, instructions and an external tutorial link where useful.
Post technical/product story with canonical link.
Submit your tool with homepage URL, privacy-first positioning, logo, screenshots and accurate pricing.
Publish a mature open-source interoperability or public-administration solution with documentation, releases, licence, and owner metadata.
Submit your tool with homepage URL, privacy-first positioning, logo, screenshots and accurate pricing.
Submit your polished landing/tool UI with clean screenshots and design credits.
Submit useful your tool-related talks to relevant CFPs or run a genuine community CFP with a public event page.
Publish a clinical-data de-identification or quality tool with source, installation steps, dependencies, documentation, and tests.
Submit an educational, non-sales session on privacy-safe tooling or accessible creator workflows when the next CFP opens.
Create a truthful guest profile, add expertise and collaboration preferences, then respond to relevant interview requests.
Contribute a generalized privacy-by-design pattern derived from your tool experience, with problem, context, forces, and solution.
Submit a reusable open-source React component extracted from your tool with repository, demo, setup docs and screenshots.
Document your real implementation of a named RDA recommendation with challenge, measurable outcome, lessons, and supporting resources.
Submit your tool with homepage URL, privacy-first positioning, logo, screenshots and accurate pricing.
Create an account and submit your tool with a precise category, readable summary, official URL and evidence of a working product.
Create a developer portfolio and publish your original build story or project showcase.
Subscribe/respond to journalist requests.
Submit your 100-plus-word startup story for editorial consideration.
Pitch original your tool security research, a defensible dataset or timely threat analysis.
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.