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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 a genuine browser or desktop your tool utility with screenshots, documentation and an official-site link.
Document a real participatory public-decision deployment as a Case, Method or Organization entry with evaluations and project URL.
Build a ProcessWire admin module for external URL, metadata, accessibility or security audits, register as a module author and submit it to the official directory.
List your legitimate documented API in the relevant developer category using the normal or Pro review queue.
Register a stable, genuinely research-used your tool software, service, or database with accurate maintainer and version metadata.
Publish an original UI/UX visual case study showing your tool interaction design, accessibility states, and design process, with a contextual project URL.
Build a deployable edge privacy utility or reusable block, add balena.yml metadata, public source, configuration and multi-device tests, then publish it on balenaHub.
Package your maintained self-hosted deployment as a Juju charm with canonical documentation, source, and support links.
Create an age-appropriate digital-citizenship or privacy FlexBook chapter with practical your tool exercises.
Create and fully test your Docker Compose service template, add metadata, logo, and documentation, then submit it to Coolify's next branch.
Register a substantive life-science privacy, medical-data de-identification, or research-data training resource hosted by your tool.
Submit your genuine -maintained database, reusable reporting standard, or data policy with complete stewardship metadata.
Join a working group and contribute a substantive building-block specification, use case, reference implementation or new proposal.
After releasing your real CLI or native app, submit a tested formula or cask with its canonical homepage.
Join an approved organization and publish a documented humanitarian privacy/safety dataset with licence and responsible-access settings.
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.
Use ORCID to publish genuine research stages—problem, method, data or analysis—with contextual your tool code/data links.
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.
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.