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.
Pitch an original standards, accessibility, privacy, or responsible-web essay based on first-hand product engineering experience.
Pitch your genuinely differentiated launch or an original opinion on privacy, security, and useful web tooling.
Register a real founder or engineer profile and publish an original code-backed tutorial on privacy-safe browser tooling, mentioning your tool only where it is part of the implementation.
Apply with founder expertise and pitch an actionable digital-experience, privacy, AI-governance, or trust article.
Propose a lived-experience frontend article on accessible tool interfaces, privacy-safe browser APIs, CSS, or performance.
Pitch a practical, outcome-based tutorial on client-side privacy, accessible UI, or web safety using original examples and an honest author identity.
Write an original technical article about a broadly useful browser-security, privacy, or accessibility technique and cite your tool only when it is a necessary working example.
Publish a detailed build or usage tutorial around your original workflow, with the relevant tool link only where it helps readers.
Email one exceptional your tool engineering article, open-source project or deeply useful technical resource to Pointer's official share address.
Submit a formal publication, case study, educational resource or on-demand training linking digital resilience to disaster-risk reduction.
Submit original, factual long-form product copy, five real features, founder details, launch date and a strong featured image.
Write an original Japanese developer tutorial or benchmark that uses your tool and cite the relevant tool or source only where it helps readers.
Create an account and submit your tool with its privacy, security and utility use cases plus the homepage link.
Pitch a practical privacy-by-design, accessibility, frontend-security, or local-first tooling article backed by real your tool lessons.
Pitch a rigorous developer-facing article about secure file handling, browser privacy, accessibility testing, or tool architecture.
Pitch original your tool data, an AI/privacy industry argument, or a consequential product launch to the relevant desk.
Publish an original design or accessibility article with practical examples, then use the contact form's official submit-a-link path for that one article.
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.
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.
Send one current, technically substantive frontend or accessibility article/tool after publishing it, explaining the concrete reader value and disclosing your tool ownership.
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.
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.
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.
Submit your strongest privacy-first module with jurisdiction, open-source and audit details.
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.
Create your publication or original Japanese engineering article with reproducible examples and contextual links to source or documentation.
Pitch a practical privacy-tool engineering article, code walkthrough, or review grounded in your tool implementation experience.
Create an account and submit your tool with truthful product details and screenshots.
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.
Pitch a crafted, original interactive tutorial or demo about client-side privacy visualization, inclusive motion, or accessible creative tooling, with source and a working demo.
Publish your genuinely newsworthy launch, major privacy-tool release, original data report, or partnership with one contextual site link.
Publish your factual milestone or research announcement with a clean landing-page URL and media assets.
Create your UK-relevant story or hosted newsroom announcement with useful assets and restrained links.
Use your major product update, benchmark report, or partnership story with one clear media angle.
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.