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 as a developer or productivity tool for editorial launch coverage.
Create and maintain a PKGBUILD for your installable Linux release with the upstream URL and correct source checksums.
Build an OAuth Asana component that launches your audit or attaches a generated report, then submit complete company and support details.
Claim and verify your tool’s legitimate business entity or location and keep name, address, phone, and website consistent.
If your tool ships a legitimate genomics or bioinformatics utility, package it for R with complete vignettes and submit it for review.
Build a Bitrise Step that runs your tool secret, privacy, or accessibility checks on explicitly chosen build artifacts.
Build a practical Blender add-on for media privacy, metadata or workflow automation and upload its tested extension package with documentation.
Submit your tool with a clear business use case, logo and optional demo video.
Build your useful privacy or security Caddy module, publish the Go package, then register it for module docs and custom builds.
Build a Canva app that sends chosen design assets to your accessibility, metadata, or privacy check and returns useful results inside Canva.
Package your useful service/security monitor as an MKP, create an account, and upload its description, icon and first version.
Package your genuine Windows desktop or CLI release and set project, documentation and package-source URLs.
Publish your tested public orb for privacy, secret, or document-safety checks with a homepage URL and usage examples.
Package a secure self-hosted your app for Cloudron, publish its version catalog and documentation, then request inclusion in Community Apps.
Build a current CodeMeta validator, privacy linter, or integration and propose inclusion through the official website repository.
Publish a useful C/C++ SDK or client for your API and contribute its tested recipe to ConanCenter.
Submit a tested recipe for your real package with upstream homepage, source archive, license and tests.
Build a Kafka Connect source or sink that sends only explicitly selected records to your tool privacy or redaction checks and returns structured results.
Create a real designer profile and publish your original UX/accessibility case study with process artifacts, outcomes, and the official project link.
Submit a useful R package with URL and BugReports metadata pointing to its official project and documentation pages.
Create a free owner account, submit your tool and manage the approved public listing.
Create a defensive parser, scenario, or collection for your real -supported log source, document and test it, then submit it to CrowdSec Hub.
Create a TypeScript or Go module that runs your tool web audits in CI and returns machine-readable JSON/SARIF with useful pass/fail thresholds, then publish it to Daggerverse.
Publish your reproducible privacy benchmark with code, synthetic data, model versions, and documentation.
Submit your tool strongest polished page for free manual design review and possible gallery inclusion.
Create the real developer profile and add your tool as a genuine built project with problem, challenges, technologies, screenshots, demo, and accurate collaborator credits.
Publish your containerized research workflow or tool using CWL, WDL, Nextflow, Galaxy, or a supported notebook descriptor.
Create a functional Drupal integration or reusable module and publish a maintained project page with documentation and official links.
Submit your tool only with concrete evidence of privacy-first operation, local processing, transparent data practices, accessibility, and useful free resources.
Build a real Falco source or field-extraction plugin, publish a clear README and fields, add it to registry.yaml, sign commits, and submit the registry PR.
Submit a high-quality reusable template, page, component or permitted custom-code asset related to your workflow.
Create a comprehensive tutorial around a reusable privacy, file-processing, accessibility, or security technique, with your tool only as a natural example.
Create your company profile using your official email.
Tag and publish a public Go module with module docs and repository metadata so pkg.go.dev indexes it.
Build a panel, data-source or app plugin, validate and package it, then submit it with project links and test data.
Document a real hardware, privacy or security build that uses your tool, including schematics, progress logs and a natural official-project link.
Package your installable Haystack component, provide examples and docs, then submit it to the Haystack integrations repository.
Package an installable Haystack component or tool for your tool read-only URL, security and metadata checks, then submit a draft integration page with runnable examples.
Publish a maintained Elixir client or utility with package links, description, license and documentation.
Submit an open-source CLI formula or a qualifying macOS app cask with your canonical homepage.
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.