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.
Request an audit for your mature open-source security component, providing maintainer contacts, architecture, threat model, scope, tests, and a remediation commitment.
Create or import your genuine show, keep it public, set its official Website field and publish useful episodes.
Publish your real episode and add contextual links to resources actually discussed in its show notes.
Propose a genuinely open-source, privacy-preserving your tool component with a public roadmap, Indian community benefit, budget, milestones, and maintenance plan.
Recommend your official API with its documentation URL, concise Markdown description, category, and technical details.
When your tool exposes a stable public API, host an official OpenAPI definition at a permanent URL and submit it with accurate ownership, category, logo, and metadata.
Search for and claim your real podcast, then keep its RSS-supplied website and episode metadata accurate.
Submit your real podcast RSS feed whose show website and episode notes naturally reference relevant tools.
Submit your genuine podcast RSS feed or Apple Podcasts URL with accurate show-website and episode metadata.
Submit your real public podcast RSS feed whose metadata and episode notes reference the official site naturally.
Submit your tool MCP repository or public server URL, preferably after publishing it to the official MCP Registry.
First pass PWA checks, then submit the installable HTTPS app with manifest, service worker, offline behavior, icons, and screenshots.
Submit and verify one genuine your tool podcast feed for distribution on Amazon Music and Audible.
Add or claim your real podcast in Creator Studio and complete channel, site and episode metadata.
Submit your maintained desktop or CLI utility only after it runs natively on a modern Linux distribution and has a public OSI-approved license and repository.
Upload your original audio explainer and place relevant resource links naturally in the show description.
Create a useful quickstart for monitoring your real deployment, with instrumentation instructions, a working data source, dashboards, alerts, documentation, and a GitHub contribution.
Submit your valid public podcast feed and keep website and episode-link metadata accurate.
Make your real public repository REUSE-compliant, register its Git URL, and link the resulting compliance page from project docs.
Host or claim your genuine show, verify the RSS email, and publish accurate episode notes with relevant HTTPS resources.
Publish your real OpenAPI definition publicly with an accurate description and external documentation URL.
Submit your real public MCP server repository with correct name, install steps and configuration details.
Submit a corporate membership enquiry with accurate your tool cybersecurity/privacy activities and India entity details.
Run AI Verify on your real AI use case, then submit accurate results, version, experience, lessons and company logo.
Submit your genuine podcast RSS feed in Podcasts Connect and include the official show website in valid metadata.
Publish your real webinar, demo or workshop with a contextual canonical link in its event details.
Apply using your India-registered company/startup and provide the required entity and revenue documents.
Enroll your eligible entity as a small-organization Associate Corporate member and opt into the directory.
Join as an eligible small business and opt in to publication of your tool organization name and profile.
Publish a genuine browser or desktop your tool utility with screenshots, documentation and an official-site link.
List your legitimate documented API in the relevant developer category using the normal or Pro review queue.
After releasing your real CLI or native app, submit a tested formula or cask with its canonical homepage.
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.
Launch your real educational podcast, complete its public site, and cite relevant tools and sources in useful show notes.
Create an authentic your tool or founder design portfolio with substantive case studies and contextual links to shipped tools.
Submit useful your tool-related talks to relevant CFPs or run a genuine community CFP with a public event page.
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.
Create a portfolio for genuine your tool product/design work and use each project's external URL field for the matching live page.
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.