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 a vendor portal account and request your tool under the closest eligible Gartner market category.
Pitch an original advanced article with reproducible examples, such as local PII redaction or malicious-document inspection on Linux, linking only to a genuinely informative supporting page.
Submit a corporate membership enquiry with accurate your tool cybersecurity/privacy activities and India entity details.
Create a public Tool Trust Notes newsletter site with original privacy, accessibility, founder, and engineering field reports, using your tool links only where they directly support each issue.
Submit a specific working AI-powered your tool utility, then claim the approved listing with a domain email to maintain features and pricing.
Ask SelectHub to create or claim your profile and provide product capabilities, pricing, case studies, and customer proof.
Build and test your API integration, then request publication in Albato's public app library.
Publish your privacy-checking notebook, synthetic benchmark, AI model, app, or defensive MCP server.
Propose a truthful lifetime, annual, credit-based, or freebie campaign with clear limits and customer support terms.
Submit a truthful MSME membership request with your tool entity, business, contact and website details.
Apply using your India-registered company/startup and provide the required entity and revenue documents.
Pitch your sustainable lifetime or annual offer with redemption flow, onboarding, roadmap, and support capacity.
Create a reusable UiPath automation that invokes your documented workflow such as a local file privacy check and publish it under a verified profile.
Build a tested Workato connector for legitimate your tool triggers and actions, add clear support and usage documentation, publish it to the community library, and provide simple successful community recipes.
Pitch a practical privacy-tool engineering article, code walkthrough, or review grounded in your tool implementation experience.
Submit a 600–1,000 word practitioner article on secure CI/CD, dependency privacy, or local-first developer tooling based on real engineering experience.
Create an account and submit your tool with truthful product details and screenshots.
Have a named senior practitioner apply with evidence-backed lessons from building local-first privacy tooling, secure developer utilities, or responsible AI-adjacent systems.
Pitch a timely, deeply researched Linux or open-source security story with primary sources and explain the author's direct expertise before drafting.
Pitch a vendor-neutral tutorial on building privacy-preserving local web tools or reviewing your genuinely open-source component, then wait for topic and outline approval.
Submit a defensive security walkthrough, reproducible tool evaluation, or privacy-testing methodology with an author bio and original examples.
Pitch a reproducible tutorial about CI checks for client-side privacy, dependency security, or accessible web tools, with your tool only as a genuine example.
Submit your tool with a domain-matching email and accurate startup-use case.
Apply with a named security practitioner, writing sample, biography, and a concrete proposal based on defensible privacy or scam-protection research.
Submit your tool if AI search/GEO tool category fits.
Submit AI developer/privacy tools.
Submit AI-facing your tool tools.
Launch your properly scoped vulnerability disclosure or public bug-bounty program.
Submit your tool feature/project journey.
Join the vendor program and package your tool as a legitimate one-click app or supported SaaS add-on with documentation and website links.
Use Become a Vendor to publish your tool business-software profile.
Submit your tool for dofollow tools directory.
Submit developer-facing AI tools.
Submit free AI feature/tool.
After security readiness, launch a properly scoped public VDP or bounty program with safe-harbor language, assets, response SLAs and funded rewards where applicable.
Build a production-ready PrestaShop module or theme and submit its technical package, product page and support links.
Create a scoped ServiceNow application that performs your real workflow for selected records or attachments and submit it through the Store.
Launch your defensive vulnerability disclosure or public bug-bounty program with managed researcher access.
Submit a specific live AI-powered your tool route with a clear short and long description and its canonical URL.
Submit project for launch/blog/backlink if accepted.
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.