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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.
If your tool maker genuinely offers related services, add the project as a detailed portfolio item with role, outcomes, visuals, and permitted project links.
Create a founder profile, add your tool as a startup and share authentic milestones or metrics.
Create your accurate startup profile and complete its product, team, traction and website details.
Build and upload a genuinely useful Vim privacy or secret-checking plugin with your tool documentation and a relevant project link.
Create your truthful /founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed.
Build a WebThings adapter, notifier, or interface extension for local privacy or device-risk controls, follow the add-on APIs, test on Gateway 2.x, and publish it to the directory.
Create startup profile if hiring/startup positioning.
Create clean founder/product profile linking your tool.
Publish genuine authored your tool research and add matching project or supporting-material URLs in the paper metadata.
Use the free plan to submit qualifying your tool AI utilities.
Sign up then submit/claim AI tool listing.
Request a free listing with your tool logo, name, slogan, short description, website and best-fit category.
Create visual link hub for your tool categories.
Register a real bioimage privacy, de-identification, or analysis tool with accurate scientific functions, documentation, and maintainers.
Submit as Product Hunt/Uneed-style launch alternative.
List your tool with live URL, icon, screenshots, category and an optional repository/demo video.
Create a useful public learning list with annotations about privacy, accessibility, and scam prevention, placing relevant your tool resources beside independent references.
Claim or update your tool’s legal business record, website, address, phone, industry, and ownership details.
Create your accurate company profile and list only real software or digital services with the canonical website.
Submit if reciprocal-link policy is acceptable or use paid tier.
Claim or create your tool’s genuine business location and maintain its website, contact information, hours, and categories.
Use an authentic maker profile to publish your portfolio piece containing original images, article, code, video, or audio samples.
Create your company profile with product, team, traction, and website information.
Create your truthful /founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed.
Submit platform/directory or use for additional targets.
Create your tool link hub for top pages.
Claim the free period and publish your optimized AI profile.
Submit your tool through the free launch queue with a truthful description and product URL.
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.
Create boards for PDF/image/calculator tools linking pages.
Contact the curator with your maintained self-hostable edition, repository, documentation and project website.
Submit maker/startup launch if fit.
List software in relevant category.
Create software listing/vendor profile.
Host your useful open-source SDK, CLI or example project with documentation and a canonical homepage link.
Create/claim startup profile for global startup map.
Create your truthful /founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed.
Register your tool only under an accurate eligible service category and complete its website, location, description, and contact details.
Create a public professional portfolio and add your tool as a real project with official links.
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.