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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.
Build an original interactive demo of your utility, document the use case in Pen Details, and add your tool as one of the public profile links.
Publish a small open demo that explains one your tool algorithm or UI pattern and add the product website to the founder profile links.
Complete the founder's developer profile, add your tool as real project experience, and publish useful privacy or security engineering posts with contextual links.
Create the founder developer profile, add your tool as a real project, and link the live product and supporting repository where applicable.
Create a founder research profile that curates authoritative privacy, accessibility, security, and standards material, including your tool only when it directly supports the annotation.
Add or claim your genuine open-source project and complete its description, code locations, tags and official homepage.
Join as your tool founder, create a product page, and document meaningful launches, milestones, and lessons learned.
Create a founder expert profile and submit substantive talks about privacy-first tools, accessibility or web security.
Create a genuine founder profile and share a useful build story or tutorial with a relevant link.
Publish an original dashboard using public your tool benchmark or ecosystem data and add an appropriate project permalink in workbook details.
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.
Create your genuine collective, complete its public profile, and add the official website plus repository/social links.
Claim your genuine show, verify ownership, and complete its official website and creator details.
Create the real designer/founder profile and add your original product-design or accessibility project with collaborators, role, process, and official URL.
Host your genuine privacy/tool workshop or webinar; add your tool in the organizer website field and useful event description.
Publish an original interactive notebook showing transparent your tool benchmark, privacy, performance, or tool-usage data and cite your relevant pages.
Create a truthful founder or subject-matter expert page and feature your tool in relevant bio, talks and media.
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.