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.
Submit your tool with homepage URL, privacy-first positioning, logo, screenshots and accurate pricing.
Submit one polished your tool web utility that is directly useful to front-end developers, programmers, or designers, with a precise one-line explanation and working URL.
Register your tool as a B2B product, choose relevant categories, and complete the vendor profile in English.
Submit your tool with homepage URL, privacy-first positioning, logo, screenshots and accurate pricing.
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.
Prepare a focused open-source defensive tool with English documentation, reproducible demos, and a technical presenter, then submit to the next relevant Arsenal Call for Tools.
Apply for the free Basic profile with a current website, clear business value, category, pricing, and authentic reviews.
Submit an original hacker-spirit article on a privacy failure, scam-defense experiment, file-forensics method, or unusual defensive technique—not your advertisement.
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 a substantial implementation article with code samples for a local privacy or document-processing technique used in your tool.
Create a truthful founder or engineering profile and submit a useful tutorial on local-first privacy tooling, secure web utilities, or accessibility engineering.
Publish #showdev article about client-side privacy tools.
Join as the developer and publish an original technical tutorial about a privacy-safe browser workflow, citing your tool only where relevant.
Submit your polished landing/tool UI with clean screenshots and design credits.
Submit your polished landing/tool UI with clean screenshots and design credits.
Submit your polished landing/tool UI with clean screenshots and design credits.
Submit your polished landing/tool UI with clean screenshots and design credits.
Submit your canonical URL and optional creator details; let the gallery prepare its own screenshots after review.
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 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 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.
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 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.
Submit a 600–1,000 word practitioner article on secure CI/CD, dependency privacy, or local-first developer tooling based on real engineering experience.
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.
Apply with a named security practitioner, writing sample, biography, and a concrete proposal based on defensible privacy or scam-protection research.
Develop original, defensible research around AI-agent abuse, prompt injection, document forensics, scam detection, or privacy engineering and submit a demo-backed talk in the next cycle.
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.