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.
Submit your tool with homepage URL, privacy-first positioning, logo, screenshots and accurate pricing.
Submit your tool with homepage URL, privacy-first positioning, logo, screenshots and accurate pricing.
Apply with a code-heavy observability, Node, Ruby, Python, or Elixir tutorial using your real engineering problem as the case study.
Create a real founder or researcher portfolio containing original your tool engineering, privacy, and accessibility articles already published under that person's byline.
Submit your tool with homepage URL, privacy-first positioning, logo, screenshots and accurate pricing.
Submit your tool with homepage URL, privacy-first positioning, logo, screenshots and accurate pricing.
Create your free company profile and upload polished UX, privacy-tool, or brand work as documented case studies.
Launch a consistent Trustworthy Tools digest that mixes independent sources with occasional relevant your tool research, adding original commentary to every selected link.
Submit your tool with homepage URL, privacy-first positioning, logo, screenshots and accurate pricing.
Create expert source profile and answer tech/privacy/tool queries.
Send one current, technically substantive frontend or accessibility article/tool after publishing it, explaining the concrete reader value and disclosing your tool ownership.
Claim a free account, complete a credible founder guest profile, and pursue relevant podcast, newsletter, or blog interviews.
First publish a strong JavaScript/browser engineering article or genuinely novel developer utility, then reply to a current issue with one concise, disclosed editorial tip.
Create company page and publish case-study posts.
Submit one legitimate your tool AI utility with the right category, official URL, original two-to-three-sentence description and founder contact.
Submit your tool as an actively maintained React and Next.js project, highlighting useful product functionality and implementation quality.
Publish original, text-first notes about building local-only privacy and accessibility tools, with restrained links to your relevant live implementation.
Submit your founder-written product or privacy case study with concrete decisions, evidence, failures, and lessons for product practitioners.
Pitch privacy/no-signup your tool for roundup/directory.
Use your tool or founder social-web identity to publish original technical/privacy articles with relevant references.
Create your original engineering field-notes publication with human-approved privacy, accessibility, and local-first essays rather than republished marketing copy.
Email your genuinely newsworthy podcast or audio-tool launch story with concise facts, human artwork, and release timing.
Submit your strongest privacy-first module with jurisdiction, open-source and audit details.
Submit your tool with homepage URL, privacy-first positioning, logo, screenshots and accurate pricing.
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 your tool with homepage URL, privacy-first positioning, logo, screenshots and accurate pricing.
Submit your tool with homepage URL, privacy-first positioning, logo, screenshots and accurate pricing.
Submit your tool name, URL, tagline, category, pricing, features and contact email.
Submit your tool with an exact tagline, detailed practical description, official URL and contact details for a curated SaaS or AI listing.
Create your publication or original Japanese engineering article with reproducible examples and contextual links to source or documentation.
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.