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 an authentic your tool or founder design portfolio with substantive case studies and contextual links to shipped tools.
Create a founder or editor portfolio and add a small selection of substantial your tool guides and externally published articles.
Submit your tool with homepage URL, privacy-first positioning, logo, screenshots and accurate pricing.
Propose a vendor-neutral, reproducible cloud-native security tutorial or case study, then write it in Markdown and submit the draft by pull request after community discussion.
If the maker qualifies as a mentor, build a credible technical profile and publish a useful privacy or browser-safety tutorial.
Claim your tool’s company page and complete its verified website, company description, leadership, and employer information.
Build a robust Concrete CMS package for your privacy, accessibility or site-audit workflow, package it correctly and submit the add-on through the official marketplace manager.
Create your complete product case study and add the canonical URL naturally within project text or a linked image.
Create vendor account and submit software.
Submit your maintained developer tool with concise description, pricing and relevant tags.
Pitch an original evidence-backed privacy, scam, or cyber advisory based on genuine your tool research.
Publish your genuine benchmark, dataset, software artifact, poster, or methods report with the canonical project URL in metadata.
Claim a basic vendor profile and invite verified existing customers to leave honest reviews.
Publish your original privacy or accessibility guide and add contextual clickable links within the document.
Join the forum, answer founder questions, and share your lesson or launch update only when it directly fits the thread.
Submit your useful AI feature or online utility with the official URL, category, availability, pricing status and concise truthful description.
Submit only AI-facing your tool features, not whole toolbox if too broad.
Claim your tool employer profile and verify website, headquarters, logo, company mission, and benefits.
Submit your tool landing/design pages.
Create company/software listing.
Submit relevant AI tool page with original description.
Publish a detailed hardware or IoT project that genuinely uses your tool, with code, parts, instructions and an external tutorial link where useful.
Post technical/product story with canonical link.
Convert your original guide into a public flipbook and add contextual links or web embeds for cited tools and resources.
Submit your tool with homepage URL, privacy-first positioning, logo, screenshots and accurate pricing.
Claim your tool’s page and add the verified website, social profiles, logo, location, industry, and accurate employer story.
Submit your tool as indie/maker product.
Submit AI tools for directory inclusion.
Launch your tool with a unique tagline, screenshots and founder profile linking to your tool.
Publish a mature open-source interoperability or public-administration solution with documentation, releases, licence, and owner metadata.
Build a secure Jenkins plugin that performs your real CI, privacy, or accessibility workflow; host it through Jenkins project infrastructure and publish maintained releases and documentation.
Package your tool developer/security utilities as a compatible JetBrains plugin and upload it.
Create a founder portfolio with original your tool launch notes or product case studies and use an external-link page for the canonical website.
Submit your tool with homepage URL, privacy-first positioning, logo, screenshots and accurate pricing.
Submit landing page for inspiration gallery.
Submit your tool homepage/category landing page.
Submit your tool landing/category page.
Submit your tool for the weekly launch board with founder profile, screenshots and original launch copy.
Submit your polished landing/tool UI with clean screenshots and design credits.
Run a genuine privacy, online-tools or accessibility community and reference your tool only where it supports the group or event.
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.