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.
Request an audit for your mature open-source security component, providing maintainer contacts, architecture, threat model, scope, tests, and a remediation commitment.
Create or import your genuine show, keep it public, set its official Website field and publish useful episodes.
Publish your real episode and add contextual links to resources actually discussed in its show notes.
Propose a genuinely open-source, privacy-preserving your tool component with a public roadmap, Indian community benefit, budget, milestones, and maintenance plan.
Submit and verify one genuine your tool podcast feed for distribution on Amazon Music and Audible.
Add or claim your real podcast in Creator Studio and complete channel, site and episode metadata.
Submit your maintained desktop or CLI utility only after it runs natively on a modern Linux distribution and has a public OSI-approved license and repository.
Upload your original audio explainer and place relevant resource links naturally in the show description.
Create a useful quickstart for monitoring your real deployment, with instrumentation instructions, a working data source, dashboards, alerts, documentation, and a GitHub contribution.
Submit your valid public podcast feed and keep website and episode-link metadata accurate.
Make your real public repository REUSE-compliant, register its Git URL, and link the resulting compliance page from project docs.
Host or claim your genuine show, verify the RSS email, and publish accurate episode notes with relevant HTTPS resources.
Publish your real OpenAPI definition publicly with an accurate description and external documentation URL.
Submit your genuine podcast RSS feed in Podcasts Connect and include the official show website in valid metadata.
Publish your real webinar, demo or workshop with a contextual canonical link in its event details.
Apply using your India-registered company/startup and provide the required entity and revenue documents.
Enroll your eligible entity as a small-organization Associate Corporate member and opt into the directory.
Join as an eligible small business and opt in to publication of your tool organization name and profile.
After releasing your real CLI or native app, submit a tested formula or cask with its canonical homepage.
After your tool has a stable, commonly used JSON or YAML configuration format, contribute its accurate schema and test fixtures so editors can provide validation, completion, and tooltips.
Apply with your concrete privacy, security or user-autonomy FOSS work package, milestones, budget and public repository.
Launch your real educational podcast, complete its public site, and cite relevant tools and sources in useful show notes.
Create an authentic your tool or founder design portfolio with substantive case studies and contextual links to shipped tools.
Use pretalx for your genuine community conference or submit relevant talks to events that use the platform.
Create a portfolio for genuine your tool product/design work and use each project's external URL field for the matching live page.
Create a legitimate free or paid your tool resource or software product and publish it on a branded hosted storefront.
Apply only with a validated open-source privacy or anti-surveillance project that directly helps users facing repressive censorship or surveillance.
Apply as a General Member only if your tool will meaningfully contribute engineering or resources to open-source security.
Submit only after your tool releases a signed Windows desktop utility.
Release your genuine SDK, verify its namespace, sign artifacts, and include accurate project, SCM, license and developer URLs.
Publish real your tool film, design, illustration or product case studies and connect them to the appropriate project pages.
Build a real founder or your tool creative portfolio and link relevant case studies to the corresponding live tools.
Use only if your tool has a genuine creator offer, guide or service; complete the storefront and connect relevant site pages.
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.