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.
Complete the current CAIQ or AI-CAIQ truthfully and submit your tool real cloud service to the STAR Registry.
Publish a genuine hosted, external, or stdio MCP server exposing a small set of consent-based your tool utilities with complete metadata and documentation.
Create a tested Ansible collection for supported your tool deployment or audit automation, complete galaxy.yml, version it, and publish with a Galaxy token.
Create org/repo README linking your tool; submit to relevant awesome lists.
Release a maintained Nim client or utility for your tool and publish it through Nimble with accurate repository and homepage metadata.
Create your functional Node-RED node, publish it to npm, and add it to the Flow Library with documentation and support metadata.
Publish a real .NET library or CLI package with ProjectUrl, readme, repository and license metadata.
Package a real embedded privacy or security library for supported boards, add complete PlatformIO manifest and examples, test it, and publish it publicly.
Publish your stable module or script with ProjectURI, LicenseURI, tags, help and examples.
Publish your Dart package with homepage, repository, issue tracker, documentation and a complete readme.
Build a maintained Pulsar editor package that performs your real workflow, then publish it to the official package registry with a useful README and project link.
Publish a maintained Terraform provider for your tool stable API, or a genuinely reusable deployment module, with signed releases, generated documentation, examples, tests, and semantic versions.
Package your reproducible privacy or redaction workflow, join or create a team, and register it with rich metadata and source links.
Submit only after public privacy policy and client-side privacy proof.
Create a tested Chef cookbook for supported your tool deployment or hardening, add complete metadata and source, then share it to Supermarket.
Release a genuine Clojure or JVM client library with a POM, description, homepage and source metadata.
Create your public package repository for genuine releases and complete its namespace, description, licence and source/homepage metadata.
Publish a genuine iOS or macOS your tool SDK and set homepage/source URLs in its podspec.
Publish a genuine Perl module or CLI through PAUSE with project URLs and clear distribution documentation.
After releasing a genuinely Django-relevant open-source component, sign in and add its GitHub or GitLab repository and accurate project links.
Build an ESP-IDF privacy, credential-safety, secure-logging, or local-processing component, add manifest, license, docs, examples, and publish it through the registry workflow.
Publish your genuine versioned Nix flake under the correct GitHub owner and maintain its README and project links.
Submit your real maintained open-source release with accurate categories and project metadata.
Create a founder/developer portfolio, pin your tool repository/project and add the official website link.
Release a useful Haskell library or command-line client with homepage, source and bug-report metadata.
Release a useful Haxe SDK or privacy utility and set haxelib.json's URL to your relevant documentation page.
Create a truthful scholarly profile and deposit an original privacy, accessibility, or digital-humanities paper or teaching resource with its related your tool URL.
Create a useful Lua client or helper, publish its rockspec and include homepage, license and source links.
Release your reusable -related security or privacy module from a correctly named public GitHub repository.
Submit your maintained open-source component for community review.
Publish and maintain a tested Scoop manifest for your actual portable Windows CLI or app.
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.