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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.
Publish genuine authored your tool research and add matching project or supporting-material URLs in the paper metadata.
Use an authentic maker profile to publish your portfolio piece containing original images, article, code, video, or audio samples.
Create your public repository and distribute real signed DEB, RPM, npm, Maven, Helm or other supported packages with accurate metadata.
Contact the curator with your maintained self-hostable edition, repository, documentation and project website.
Host your useful open-source SDK, CLI or example project with documentation and a canonical homepage link.
Submit your maintained voice/audio utility with licensing and a clear creator or voice-AI use case.
Use the free reviewed tier for a real AI-powered tool, with a complete and accurate product profile.
Launch your real educational podcast, complete its public site, and cite relevant tools and sources in useful show notes.
Create an authentic your tool or founder design portfolio with substantive case studies and contextual links to shipped tools.
Submit your maintained developer tool with concise description, pricing and relevant tags.
Convert your original guide into a public flipbook and add contextual links or web embeds for cited tools and resources.
Build a secure Jenkins plugin that performs your real CI, privacy, or accessibility workflow; host it through Jenkins project infrastructure and publish maintained releases and documentation.
Package your tool developer/security utilities as a compatible JetBrains plugin and upload it.
Run a genuine privacy, online-tools or accessibility community and reference your tool only where it supports the group or event.
Create your organization, set its official website, and publish a real free or paid digital product or subscription.
Use pretalx for your genuine community conference or submit relevant talks to events that use the platform.
Build a legitimate Ring-device privacy/security integration, register, test, certify and publish it.
Upload a useful original presentation on privacy, accessibility, or tool workflows with your natural reference.
Submit your focused developer utility with repository, documentation and supported platforms.
Create a founder/privacy-tool expert profile, add your tool website and pitch only genuinely relevant podcast interviews.
Join the free guest-request emails and pitch only relevant shows with a useful privacy, security, accessibility, or tooling angle.
Publish your original guide or annual privacy report and add useful contextual website links through the Hotspot Editor.
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.