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.
Launch a consistent Trustworthy Tools digest that mixes independent sources with occasional relevant your tool research, adding original commentary to every selected link.
Submit your tool with homepage URL, privacy-first positioning, logo, screenshots and accurate pricing.
Create expert source profile and answer tech/privacy/tool queries.
Send one current, technically substantive frontend or accessibility article/tool after publishing it, explaining the concrete reader value and disclosing your tool ownership.
Claim a free account, complete a credible founder guest profile, and pursue relevant podcast, newsletter, or blog interviews.
First publish a strong JavaScript/browser engineering article or genuinely novel developer utility, then reply to a current issue with one concise, disclosed editorial tip.
Create company page and publish case-study posts.
Submit one legitimate your tool AI utility with the right category, official URL, original two-to-three-sentence description and founder contact.
Submit your tool as an actively maintained React and Next.js project, highlighting useful product functionality and implementation quality.
Publish original, text-first notes about building local-only privacy and accessibility tools, with restrained links to your relevant live implementation.
Submit your founder-written product or privacy case study with concrete decisions, evidence, failures, and lessons for product practitioners.
Pitch privacy/no-signup your tool for roundup/directory.
Use your tool or founder social-web identity to publish original technical/privacy articles with relevant references.
Create your original engineering field-notes publication with human-approved privacy, accessibility, and local-first essays rather than republished marketing copy.
Email your genuinely newsworthy podcast or audio-tool launch story with concise facts, human artwork, and release timing.
Submit your strongest privacy-first module with jurisdiction, open-source and audit details.
Submit your tool with homepage URL, privacy-first positioning, logo, screenshots and accurate pricing.
Submit your tool with homepage URL, privacy-first positioning, logo, screenshots and accurate pricing.
Submit your polished landing/tool UI with clean screenshots and design credits.
Submit your tool with homepage URL, privacy-first positioning, logo, screenshots and accurate pricing.
Submit your tool with homepage URL, privacy-first positioning, logo, screenshots and accurate pricing.
Submit your tool name, URL, tagline, category, pricing, features and contact email.
Submit your tool with an exact tagline, detailed practical description, official URL and contact details for a curated SaaS or AI listing.
Create your publication or original Japanese engineering article with reproducible examples and contextual links to source or documentation.
Build your working automation Actor, publish it to the Store and include contextual project/documentation links.
Package your legitimate desktop app as an official AppImage, then file the requested issue or pull request for inclusion.
If your property genuinely uses Astro, use the Submit site action to propose it for the public showcase.
Submit only after public privacy policy and client-side privacy proof.
Curate a tagged public collection of authoritative privacy, accessibility, and safety resources with your tool included only where substantively relevant.
Register your genuinely life-science-focused resource with stable homepage, scientific operations, inputs, outputs, licence, and documentation.
Build your useful Budibase component or data-source plugin, publish the package or repository, and seek inclusion in community plugin resources.
Create a tested CapRover one-click definition for your real self-hosted service and contribute it to the linked official community repository.
Create a vendor account and list your tool software offering.
Create a tested Chef cookbook for supported your tool deployment or hardening, add complete metadata and source, then share it to Supermarket.
Release a genuine Clojure or JVM client library with a POM, description, homepage and source metadata.
Create your public package repository for genuine releases and complete its namespace, description, licence and source/homepage metadata.
Publish a genuine iOS or macOS your tool SDK and set homepage/source URLs in its podspec.
Build a genuine CWL validator, security tool, or implementation and propose its inclusion with compliance evidence.
Create a real developer profile, publish your original engineering tutorial or project, and join only relevant privacy or developer communities.
Build a functional Contao bundle for your site-audit use case, publish tagged releases on Packagist with contao-bundle and manager-plugin metadata, and let the official index discover it.
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.