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.
Create a maintained Omeka S module for collection metadata privacy, accessibility or link auditing, package it correctly and register the add-on with project and author links.
Create a rigorous structured comparison of published privacy, redaction, or accessibility studies and include your tool only when supported by research.
Create a public reproducibility project for your tool research, datasets, test methods, or privacy benchmarks and link the genuine project/site.
Create a public case-study portfolio and add your tool with screenshots, live demo and build rationale.
After your tool has eligible ReliefWeb content, request publishing access and submit humanitarian reports or training from verified owned URLs.
Create your reproducible evaluation project with code, data connectors, environment, narrative, and a public session launcher.
Create a reproducible Tale containing your evaluation's data, code, environment, outputs, and narrative, then publish through a supported repository.
Publish a Canadian-ready, openly licensed privacy or digital-citizenship textbook and use Contribute → Suggest a Textbook.
Launch your real educational podcast, complete its public site, and cite relevant tools and sources in useful show notes.
Publish a polished original guide, research brief, or accessibility zine as a public document, with useful references and your relevant link inside the editorial content.
Create an authentic your tool or founder design portfolio with substantive case studies and contextual links to shipped tools.
Create your complete product case study and add the canonical URL naturally within project text or a linked image.
Pitch an original evidence-backed privacy, scam, or cyber advisory based on genuine your tool research.
Publish a mature open-source interoperability or public-administration solution with documentation, releases, licence, and owner metadata.
Create a founder portfolio with original your tool launch notes or product case studies and use an external-link page for the canonical website.
Build your free mobile mini-site with brand story, key collections, demos and contact links.
Submit useful your tool-related talks to relevant CFPs or run a genuine community CFP with a public event page.
Submit an educational, non-sales session on privacy-safe tooling or accessible creator workflows when the next CFP opens.
Claim a builder profile and add your tool as a shipped project using its live public URL.
Use pretalx for your genuine community conference or submit relevant talks to events that use the platform.
Submit a reusable open-source React component extracted from your tool with repository, demo, setup docs and screenshots.
Document your real implementation of a named RDA recommendation with challenge, measurable outcome, lessons, and supporting resources.
Pitch original your tool security research, a defensible dataset or timely threat analysis.
Create a public privacy-tool research library with credible standards, papers, and references, including only genuinely relevant your tool documentation.
Add your tool website listing.
Apply only after your tool becomes a legally registered nonprofit with software central to scalable public impact.
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 an original benchmark or evaluation study of local-first privacy or security tooling with open code, data, and your tool implementation.
Organize the complete code, data, materials, and outputs behind your real evaluation study into a public citable box.
Publish your substantive privacy template, workbook, or creator resource with a complete description, original previews, and accurate licensing.
Author a freely licensed hands-on module for safe document sharing or privacy-first web use with relevant your tool examples.
Use to organize submissions and find more SaaS directories.
Register as a maintainer and submit your real open-source project with contributor-ready issues.
Build a genuine Solid privacy utility that lets users choose identity providers and stores or retrieves their data from Solid Pods, then confirm the current listing handoff with maintainers.
Pitch your tool as innovation/useful web tool platform.
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.