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.
Add standards-valid CycloneDX support, then submit your structured entry through the official contribution workflow.
Submit one or more free your tool utilities that work without registration.
Submit your tool once with its strongest free-use case, correct category, concise copy, and product URL.
Submit your mature self-hosted edition using the required YAML entry and canonical website/source links.
Submit a genuine international cyber-capacity-building project, tool, publication or webinar with evidence and a live resource URL.
Submit a genuinely open-source, maintained and self-hostable your tool component as an alternative to a named proprietary tool.
Propose your qualifying open-source privacy project through the official contribution process.
Create your product page for discovery, comparison, and reviews.
Build a tool that genuinely interacts with Wikimedia, publish accurate toolinfo.json metadata, and register it through Toolhub UI, crawler, or API.
Package your legitimate desktop app as an official AppImage, then file the requested issue or pull request for inclusion.
Register your genuinely life-science-focused resource with stable homepage, scientific operations, inputs, outputs, licence, and documentation.
Create a tested CapRover one-click definition for your real self-hosted service and contribute it to the linked official community repository.
Create a vendor account and list your tool software offering.
Build a genuine CWL validator, security tool, or implementation and propose its inclusion with compliance evidence.
Submit relevant your tool utilities under AI, web, or developer categories.
Publish a privacy-respecting open-source Android companion app, then file a packaging request or merge request.
Choose the free listing or purchase your dedicated product page.
Request access, then publish your rich research-software page with source, getting-started URL, DOI, contributors, and research mentions.
Archive your genuine public source repository and add its resulting SWHID permalink to release and citation metadata.
Add your tool if accepted; create company stack.
Add your tool as a SaaS or online service with its official URL.
Request a free listing with your tool logo, name, slogan, short description, website and best-fit category.
Register a real bioimage privacy, de-identification, or analysis tool with accurate scientific functions, documentation, and maintainers.
List your tool with live URL, icon, screenshots, category and an optional repository/demo video.
Submit your public open-source repository and product description after a reusable component is released.
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.
List software in relevant category.
Create software listing/vendor profile.
Release one standalone your tool utility as open source, ad-free and local-first, then submit via GitHub.
Submit your maintained voice/audio utility with licensing and a clear creator or voice-AI use case.
Submit your tool to product-launch/tools category.
Submit your tool for dofollow tools directory.
Create company profile if your tool/Anslation has service angle.
Create company listing and product profile.
Use free launch/listing tools to prep copy and track submissions.
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 viewOne-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.
An 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.