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.
Publish your small standalone privacy or accessibility demo with explanatory comments and a stable share URL.
Publish your clean benchmark or open dataset plus a reproducible notebook, with proper licensing and the canonical project URL in the data card.
Implement Java tasks or triggers for submitting your tool audits and fetching structured results, complete with typed properties, examples, tests and generated documentation.
Build your standalone integration package with tests and submit the required LangChain documentation PR.
Contribute your provider bundle with useful privacy or security components and provider documentation links.
Create an account and submit your live product with polished copy, visuals and an accurate category.
Join as your real designer and share polished, original interface explorations or accessibility improvements with useful design context and a profile website link.
Create your publication and write original tutorials or research with contextual links to relevant tools.
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.
Create a genuine founder profile and share a useful build story or tutorial with a relevant link.
Create a genuine founder profile and share a useful build story or tutorial with a relevant link.
Propose eligible your tool client-side or offline-first tools to the public directory with accurate site and source links.
Create and test a Portfile for your open-source CLI or desktop app, including its canonical homepage.
Build and teach a live, project-based cohort on creating local-first privacy tools or accessible web utilities, supported by a substantive public syllabus and real instructor profile.
Release a useful Java or Kotlin SDK and include the project homepage, source control, license and developer metadata in the POM.
Create a useful Emacs client for your public API, host its source openly and submit a MELPA recipe pull request.
Publish an original, human-verified privacy or accessibility benchmark with complete methodology, provenance, schema, license, and a relevant project citation.
Launch your tool with a unique tagline, screenshots and founder profile linking to your tool.
Submit your tool as a polished tool website with its strongest public page and a concise explanation of the design system.
Upload your original audio explainer and place relevant resource links naturally in the show description.
Share your openly licensed digital-safety lesson pack or Moodle activity and curate it into an educator-focused collection.
Launch your tool with a unique tagline, screenshots and founder profile linking to your tool.
Create a working Nagios check or addon for your API/privacy-health signal, register, and submit the project with source and website links.
Build and test a Netlify extension, publish it publicly, then submit it for review and directory listing.
Create a useful quickstart for monitoring your real deployment, with instrumentation instructions, a working data source, dashboards, alerts, documentation, and a GitHub contribution.
Build a signed Nextcloud app for local document sanitization or privacy checks, publish releases, and maintain App Store compatibility.
Add and test a Nix expression for your genuine release with description, homepage, license and maintainer metadata.
Publish @your tool/embed or utility package with homepage.
Publish a machine-readable privacy, accessibility, or scam-pattern dataset or API and complete its evidence-based public certificate.
Submit your mature privacy component for technical and security review.
Publish your small local-first classifier for privacy, secret detection, or defensive content analysis.
Suggest your tool and complete its B2B software profile.
Build a functional OPA/Rego privacy-policy integration or developer tool, document it, then add its ecosystem entry and logo through the official docs repository.
Create your genuine collective, complete its public profile, and add the official website plus repository/social links.
Submit a complete, openly licensed privacy/digital-safety textbook already used in higher education.
Create an account and submit your tool or its qualifying AI tools.
Publish a free mini-course on privacy, redaction, scam detection, or accessibility with genuine your tool exercises in the curriculum.
Publish a documented, de-identified ML-ready benchmark such as labelled phishing, homograph, or accessibility test cases with provenance and an open license.
Submit your maintained open-source project through Submit a Project.
Run Scorecard on your public component, enable published results, remediate checks, and link the public viewer from repository documentation.
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.