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.
Submit a mature macOS, iOS, or web companion app that provides your privacy workflow and links to its official product documentation.
Build a Shopware admin extension for privacy and accessibility checks on selected catalog content, media, and exports.
Build a SketchUp extension for model metadata sanitization or accessibility-ready export checks.
Build a Stripe app that sends selected non-sensitive invoice or export data to your clearly scoped audit and publish complete documentation.
Place your targeted campaign in TLDR Dev, InfoSec, AI, Tech, Product, or Founders with a focused landing page.
Build your VTEX IO storefront or admin privacy utility, define billing, and submit it for homologation.
Publish a secure one-click self-hosted your tool image or cloud-init deployment with documentation and support.
Distribute your substantial launch or privacy/security research story with media, founder quote, and one canonical URL.
Reserve for major corporate news, partnerships, funding, or independently useful your tool research.
Build a tightly relevant press list and pitch your original report, launch, or expert source contribution.
Use its PR Newswire-backed packages only for your strong national-interest story with clear evidence.
Use for a major release or original your tool trend report that merits broad international distribution.
Develop an open statistical/privacy-analysis component, then submit a reproducible English LaTeX software paper linking its code and your tool project page.
Identify reporters actively covering privacy, security, developer tools, and consumer utilities; send individualized evidence-led pitches.
Use a focused product or research announcement and target the most relevant technology or cybersecurity distribution.
Use its distribution-only option for ready copy or writing package for your strong UK-facing announcement.
Submit your newsworthy release and target its newspaper, radio, television, and online media network.
Pitch a high-signal announcement to relevant technology, AI, privacy, or India media lists through its distribution network.
Build a genuine RO-Crate validator or privacy linter and submit a technical developer article using the official blog template.
Research AI-cited journalists, build a narrow list, and pitch your tool research or expert commentary rather than generic product copy.
Submit a deep technical tutorial showing a generalizable web, security, or privacy technique used while building your tool.
Submit a polished technology or company announcement and select only the relevant distribution circuit.
Create your profile and add genuinely useful homepage, privacy-tool and accessibility-tool links.
Build table functions that import, normalize and query your tool report JSON or NDJSON with typed findings, then submit the extension descriptor for central build and distribution.
Apply only after your tool becomes a legally registered nonprofit with software central to scalable public impact.
Prepare and test a policy-compliant ebuild for your stable CLI, including accurate HOMEPAGE and source metadata, then work with a Gentoo developer or proxy maintainer for repository inclusion.
Port your functional desktop or CLI utility to Haiku, write and test a compliant recipe, then submit a feature-branch pull request to HaikuPorts.
Submit a licensed computational neuroscience model with code ZIP, publication citation, overview, contributors, and tags.
Build a maintained OctoPrint plugin for your credible -related workflow such as privacy-safe print logs or metadata checks, then register it through the official repository pull request.
Register only after your tool launches a genuine open repository for reusable privacy/security research outputs.
Implement a genuine OpenFeature provider, hook or integration around your configuration or audit-health use case, publish it and add it to the ecosystem documentation.
Submit your tool with the verification badge or use the no-badge paid option.
Build a production-grade Camel component for your tool APIs and propose it upstream with generated component docs and tests.
Submit your -related astronomy utility only after it has been used in research submitted to or published by a refereed journal.
Create a tested Bioconda recipe for a genuinely biomedical or bioinformatics your tool utility, with accurate homepage/source metadata, and submit it through the official review workflow.
Contribute a documented bioimaging privacy or de-identification model, application integration, or other qualifying resource linked to your tool.
Publish a documented social, ecological, or computational model with source, narrative documentation, contributors, and reproducibility metadata.
Open-source a relevant geoscience model or component, complete the model questionnaire, and provide its code archive for CSDMS testing.
Build a Cytoscape 3 app for a genuine graph privacy, provenance or network-audit workflow, provide website/source metadata and submit its first release for administrator approval.
Create a policy-compliant Debian package for your stable useful CLI, file the appropriate intent-to-package request, include accurate upstream metadata and secure a Debian sponsor for upload.
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.