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 property genuinely uses Astro, use the Submit site action to propose it for the public showcase.
Build a genuine free challenge solution, publish the deployed project and repository, and use the finished privacy or accessibility implementation as a portfolio case study.
Enter a relevant live hackathon with your working project, complete its story and demo, and include the project website where allowed.
If your tool maker genuinely offers related services, add the project as a detailed portfolio item with role, outcomes, visuals, and permitted project links.
Sign in with GitHub or Google and add your tool as a real portfolio project with tech stack.
If your tool documentation genuinely runs on Docusaurus, add the polished docs site through the official showcase discussion.
Create a focused educational demo for one your tool technique and share the public bin from an authentic profile.
Build a working mini-project showing your browser-side feature and publish its indexed share page with useful documentation.
Use an authentic maker profile to publish your portfolio piece containing original images, article, code, video, or audio samples.
Build a substantive product-design case study covering your tool system, flows, and outcomes, then add the canonical site through supported navigation or project links.
Submit your tool landing/design pages.
Submit landing page for inspiration gallery.
Submit your tool homepage/category landing page.
Submit your tool landing/category page.
Submit your polished landing/tool UI with clean screenshots and design credits.
Contribute a generalized privacy-by-design pattern derived from your tool experience, with problem, context, forces, and solution.
Submit your polished landing/tool UI with clean screenshots and design credits.
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.