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.
The table is wider than the screen — swipe it sideways for cost, effort and the preparation notes.
| # | Impact (sorted) | Site — sort by this | Domain | Type | Cost | Effort — sort by this | Priority | Status | What to prepare | Rules / caveat | Checked | Actions |
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| 1 | 68 | Commudle | commudle.com | Profiles and entities | Free | Quick | Medium | Verified live | Create a real developer profile, publish an original your tool engineering tutorial or project, and join only relevant privacy or developer communities. | Share knowledge first, follow each community's rules, and do not create an empty promotional community or mass-post the same link. | Official Commudle community platform checked 2026-08-07 | Open Commudle submit page (new tab)Commudle details |
| 2 | 68 | Flickr | flickr.com | Profiles and entities | Free | Quick | Medium | Not submitted | Create a truthful your tool/founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed. | Use a real brand/founder identity; do not create thin duplicate pages. Listing link is currently reported nofollow. | 2026-07-30 • https://www.submission.directory/site/flickr | Open Flickr submit page (new tab)Flickr details |
| 3 | 68 | GitLab | gitlab.com | Profiles and entities | Free | Quick | Medium | Not submitted | Mirror open-source embed SDK or examples with homepage link. | Useful only with real OSS artifact. | 2026-07-30 | Open GitLab submit page (new tab)GitLab details |
| 4 | 68 | Goodreads | goodreads.com | Profiles and entities | Free | Quick | Medium | Verified live | Create a truthful your tool/founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed. | Use a real brand/founder identity; do not create thin duplicate pages. Listing link is currently reported nofollow. | 2026-07-30 • https://www.submission.directory/site/goodreads | Open Goodreads submit page (new tab)Goodreads details |
| 5 | 68 | Gravatar | gravatar.com | Profiles and entities | Free | Quick | Medium | Needs checking | Create brand/founder profile with verified links. | Easy entity citation; low traffic. | 2026-07-30 | Open Gravatar submit page (new tab)Gravatar details |
| 6 | 68 | HubPages | hubpages.com | Profiles and entities | Free | Quick | Medium | Verified live | Create a truthful your tool/founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed. | Use a real brand/founder identity; do not create thin duplicate pages. Listing link is currently reported nofollow. | 2026-07-30 • https://www.submission.directory/site/hubpages | Open HubPages submit page (new tab)HubPages details |
| 7 | 68 | HundrED | hundred.org | Profiles and entities | Free | Quick | Medium | Verified live | Apply with a privacy/digital-safety education program that demonstrates real K-12 impact and scalability. | Current Global Collection 2028 call closes 2027-05-01; normally implemented for 1+ year and reached 1,000+ children; evidence required. | 2026-08-05 — https://hundred.org/en/collections/hundred-global-collection-2028 | Open HundrED submit page (new tab)HundrED details |
| 8 | 68 | Liberapay | liberapay.com | Profiles and entities | Free | Quick | Medium | Live, conditional | Create an your tool project team, connect verified project accounts, and describe the official website and repository contextually. | Teams are for genuine shared projects; one-contributor projects are allowed, but a single-company shell is not the intended use. | 2026-08-05 | Open Liberapay submit page (new tab)Liberapay details |
| 9 | 68 | Patreon | patreon.com | Profiles and entities | Free | Quick | Medium | Needs checking | Create a truthful your tool/founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed. | Use a real brand/founder identity; do not create thin duplicate pages. Listing link is currently reported nofollow. | 2026-07-30 • https://www.submission.directory/site/patreon | Open Patreon submit page (new tab)Patreon details |
| 10 | 68 | PitchBook | pitchbook.com | Profiles and entities | Free | Quick | Medium | Live, conditional | Search for your tool; submit an accurate profile update or request research coverage with authoritative company data and website. | Inclusion is not guaranteed and may require an account; do not exaggerate funding or company facts. | 2026-08-04 | Open PitchBook submit page (new tab)PitchBook details |
| 11 | 68 | ResearchGate | researchgate.net | Profiles and entities | Free | Quick | Medium | Live, conditional | An eligible active researcher can publish genuine your tool studies, code or datasets and add the official website where appropriate. | Membership is for active researchers; upload only owned research and respect publisher copyright. | 2026-08-04 | Open ResearchGate submit page (new tab)ResearchGate details |
| 12 | 68 | Sketchfab | sketchfab.com | Profiles and entities | Free | Quick | Medium | Verified live | Publish an original educational 3D asset connected to a real your tool tutorial, with accurate credits and a contextual project link in the description. | Upload only content you own or can license; descriptions should explain the model rather than serve as link ads, and UGC links may be nofollow. | 2026-08-03 | Open Sketchfab submit page (new tab)Sketchfab details |
| 13 | 68 | SlideShare | slideshare.net | Profiles and entities | Free | Quick | Medium | Needs checking | Create a truthful your tool/founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed. | Use a real brand/founder identity; do not create thin duplicate pages. Listing link is currently reported nofollow. | 2026-07-30 • https://www.submission.directory/site/slideshare | Open SlideShare submit page (new tab)SlideShare details |
| 14 | 68 | Stack Exchange | stackexchange.com | Profiles and entities | Free | Quick | Medium | Not submitted | Build a real founder profile and answer narrowly relevant questions, linking to an your tool resource only when it directly substantiates the answer. | Strict anti-self-promotion rules apply; disclose affiliation, never seed questions, and expect links in posts to be UGC or nofollow. | 2026-08-03 | Open Stack Exchange submit page (new tab)Stack Exchange details |
| 15 | 68 | Stack Overflow | stackoverflow.com | Profiles and entities | Free | Quick | Medium | Not submitted | Create a truthful your tool/founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed. | Use a real brand/founder identity; do not create thin duplicate pages. Listing link is currently reported nofollow. | 2026-07-30 • https://www.submission.directory/site/stack-overflow | Open Stack Overflow submit page (new tab)Stack Overflow details |
| 16 | 68 | Techendo | techendo.com | Profiles and entities | Free | Quick | Medium | Needs checking | Create a genuine founder profile and share a useful build story or tutorial with a relevant link. | Follow community self-promotion rules; contribute before linking; no repetitive posts. Listing link is currently reported nofollow. | 2026-07-30 • https://www.submission.directory/site/techendo | Open Techendo submit page (new tab)Techendo details |
| 17 | 68 | Wattpad | wattpad.com | Profiles and entities | Free | Quick | Medium | Needs checking | Create a truthful your tool/founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed. | Use a real brand/founder identity; do not create thin duplicate pages. Listing link is currently reported nofollow. | 2026-07-30 • https://www.submission.directory/site/wattpad | Open Wattpad submit page (new tab)Wattpad details |
| 18 | 66 | devRant | devrant.com | Profiles and entities | Free | Moderate | Medium | Verified live | Participate as a real developer with original lessons and honest build stories; reference your tool only if a specific discussion genuinely calls for the working example. | devRant treats accounts whose posts/comments mainly consist of links, duplicates, misleading identities, random comments, or purchased interactions as spam. Do not use a business name to mislead, disclose affiliation, and contribute without expecting a backlink. All links/posts are moderated UGC with no indexing or followed-link guarantee. | 2026-08-03 | Open devRant submit page (new tab)devRant details |
| 19 | 66 | Discourse Meta | discourse.org | Profiles and entities | Free | Moderate | Medium | Verified live | Use a real developer profile and contribute tested solutions on Discourse integrations, accessibility, or privacy only when the team has genuine implementation experience. | Meta is for improving Discourse discussions, not promoting AltFTool; spam, cross-posting, work solicitation outside Marketplace, and pasted AI replies are prohibited. Link only when essential, disclose affiliation, and never sign posts with promotional copy. Posts/profile links are moderated UGC with no permanence or followed-link guarantee. | 2026-08-03 | Open Discourse Meta submit page (new tab)Discourse Meta details |
| 20 | 66 | LiveJournal | livejournal.com | Profiles and entities | Free | Moderate | Medium | Not submitted | Create a truthful your tool/founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed. | Use a real brand/founder identity; do not create thin duplicate pages. Dofollow is reported but recheck after approval. | 2026-07-30 • https://www.submission.directory/site/livejournal | Open LiveJournal submit page (new tab)LiveJournal details |
| 21 | 66 | Slashdot | slashdot.org | Profiles and entities | Free | Moderate | Medium | Not submitted | Create a truthful your tool/founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed. | Use a real brand/founder identity; do not create thin duplicate pages. Dofollow is reported but recheck after approval. | 2026-07-30 • https://www.submission.directory/site/slashdot | Open Slashdot submit page (new tab)Slashdot details |
| 22 | 66 | Spiceworks Community | spiceworks.com | Profiles and entities | Free | Moderate | Medium | Verified live | Join with a transparent identity and answer relevant IT/privacy questions from direct experience; mention an your tool resource only when it materially completes a specific answer. | The community explicitly bans spam and promotional participation; only labeled Brand Representatives may promote products/services. Ordinary participation must be helpful and non-promotional, with affiliation disclosed before any contextual mention. Posts are public UGC and search-indexed, but moderation, deletion, and nofollow/rel treatment are at platform discretion. | 2026-08-03 | Open Spiceworks Community submit page (new tab)Spiceworks Community details |
| 23 | 66 | Telegraph | telegra.ph | Profiles and entities | Free | Moderate | Medium | Verified live | Create a truthful your tool/founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed. | Use a real brand/founder identity; do not create thin duplicate pages. Dofollow is reported but recheck after approval. | 2026-07-30 • https://www.submission.directory/site/telegraph | Open Telegraph submit page (new tab)Telegraph details |
| 24 | 65 | About.me | about.me | Profiles and entities | Free + paid tier | Quick | Medium | Not submitted | Create clean founder/product profile linking your tool. | Easy brand entity citation. | 2026-07-30 | Open About.me submit page (new tab)About.me details |
| 25 | 65 | Academia.edu | academia.edu | Profiles and entities | Free + paid tier | Quick | Medium | Live, conditional | Publish genuine authored your tool research and add matching project or supporting-material URLs in the paper metadata. | Use authentic authored literature or research; external links must support the paper, not act as unrelated promotion. | 2026-08-04 | Open Academia.edu submit page (new tab)Academia.edu details |
| 26 | 65 | Bento | bento.me | Profiles and entities | Free + paid tier | Quick | Medium | Not submitted | Create visual link hub for your tool categories. | Good branded profile; low friction. | 2026-07-30 | Open Bento submit page (new tab)Bento details |
| 27 | 65 | Jimdo | jimdo.com | Profiles and entities | Free + paid tier | Quick | Medium | Not submitted | Create a truthful your tool/founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed. | Use a real brand/founder identity; do not create thin duplicate pages. Listing link is currently reported nofollow. | 2026-07-30 • https://www.submission.directory/site/jimdo | Open Jimdo submit page (new tab)Jimdo details |
| 28 | 65 | Linktree | linktr.ee | Profiles and entities | Free + paid tier | Quick | Medium | Not submitted | Create your tool link hub for top pages. | Referral/entity profile; links may be nofollow. | 2026-07-30 | Open Linktree submit page (new tab)Linktree details |
| 29 | 65 | Strikingly | strikingly.com | Profiles and entities | Free + paid tier | Quick | Medium | Needs checking | Create a truthful your tool/founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed. | Use a real brand/founder identity; do not create thin duplicate pages. Link treatment varies by tier/page. | 2026-07-30 • https://www.submission.directory/site/strikingly | Open Strikingly submit page (new tab)Strikingly details |
| 30 | 65 | Vimeo | vimeo.com | Profiles and entities | Free + paid tier | Quick | Medium | Not submitted | Create a truthful your tool/founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed. | Use a real brand/founder identity; do not create thin duplicate pages. Listing link is currently reported nofollow. | 2026-07-30 • https://www.submission.directory/site/vimeo | Open Vimeo submit page (new tab)Vimeo details |
| 31 | 65 | Weebly | weebly.com | Profiles and entities | Free + paid tier | Quick | Medium | Not submitted | Create a truthful your tool/founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed. | Use a real brand/founder identity; do not create thin duplicate pages. Link treatment varies by tier/page. | 2026-07-30 • https://www.submission.directory/site/weebly | Open Weebly submit page (new tab)Weebly details |
| 32 | 65 | Wix | wix.com | Profiles and entities | Free + paid tier | Quick | Medium | Needs checking | Create a truthful your tool/founder profile or content page and add the website link where allowed. | Use a real brand/founder identity; do not create thin duplicate pages. Listing link is currently reported nofollow. | 2026-07-30 • https://www.submission.directory/site/wix | Open Wix submit page (new tab)Wix details |
| 33 | 63 | Beacons | beacons.ai | Profiles and entities | Free + paid tier | Moderate | Medium | Verified live | Create one authentic your tool brand page; link the homepage and a few key tool collections with clear labels. | Use one useful brand page only; link-hub/referral value, no ranking guarantee. | 2026-08-04 | Open Beacons submit page (new tab)Beacons details |
| 34 | 63 | Podorax | podorax.com | Profiles and entities | Free | Involved | Medium | Live, conditional | Create a truthful guest profile, add expertise and collaboration preferences, then respond to relevant interview requests. | Newer network; profile quality and real collaboration history matter more than link placement. | 2026-08-05 | Open Podorax submit page (new tab)Podorax details |
| 35 | 63 | Polar | polar.sh | Profiles and entities | Free + paid tier | Moderate | Medium | Live, conditional | Create an your tool organization, set its official website, and publish a real free or paid digital product or subscription. | Use only when AltFTool has a legitimate digital product; business details, compliance and payout verification may be required. | 2026-08-05 | Open Polar submit page (new tab)Polar details |
| 36 | 58 | Cybersecurity Tech Accord | cybertechaccord.org | Profiles and entities | Paid | Quick | Medium | Live, conditional | After publishing a mature security policy and VDP, contact the Secretariat to apply as a signatory to all four principles. | Acceptance is discretionary and requires genuine defensive-security, capacity-building and collective-action commitments; never treat it as a badge shortcut. | 2026-08-05 official commitments, signatory and contact pages | Open Cybersecurity Tech Accord submit page (new tab)Cybersecurity Tech Accord details |
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.