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.
Free, low effort, high priority. No account debris, no paid tier.
act-rules.github.io
alternativeto.net
cbinsights.com
contentauthenticity.org
cloudsecurityalliance.org
cyclonedx.org
Build a Sentry integration that detects PII or credentials before issue data is exported or shared.
Submit one truthful your tool launch with a working URL, concise pitch, logo, and screenshots, then respond to manual review if needed.
Create a substantive privacy, security, or accessibility lesson using your tool exercises and propose it through the Incubator.
Create a Zendesk app or marketing-only integration for selected-ticket PII and scam checks with your tool support and pricing links.
Build a Zoho extension for document privacy, text cleanup, or data-export checks and submit its support, policy, guide, and website links.
Pitch a crafted, original interactive tutorial or demo about client-side privacy visualization, inclusive motion, or accessible creative tooling, with source and a working demo.
Publish your genuinely newsworthy launch, major privacy-tool release, original data report, or partnership with one contextual site link.
Develop original, defensible research around AI-agent abuse, prompt injection, document forensics, scam detection, or privacy engineering and submit a demo-backed talk in the next cycle.
Create a genuine founder expert profile with your tool website, topics, bio, and real media appearances so relevant hosts can invite you.
Publish your factual milestone or research announcement with a clean landing-page URL and media assets.
Create your UK-relevant story or hosted newsroom announcement with useful assets and restrained links.
Use your major product update, benchmark report, or partnership story with one clear media angle.
Monitor relevant journalist requests and answer only when your tool has direct expertise, data, or a credible founder quote.
Submit your tool as a production SaaS and request a reviewed product profile.
Distribute a concise news release about your significant launch, study, award, or partnership.
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.
Publish a genuine Perl module or CLI through PAUSE with project URLs and clear distribution documentation.
Submit relevant your tool utilities under AI, web, or developer categories.
Build a genuine free challenge solution, publish the deployed project and repository, and use the finished privacy or accessibility implementation as a portfolio case study.
Enter a relevant live hackathon with your working project, complete its story and demo, and include the project website where allowed.
After releasing a genuinely Django-relevant open-source component, sign in and add its GitHub or GitLab repository and accurate project links.
Build an ESP-IDF privacy, credential-safety, secure-logging, or local-processing component, add manifest, license, docs, examples, and publish it through the registry workflow.
List your registered business as an eligible IT supplier and complete its public company profile and website field.
Publish a privacy-respecting open-source Android companion app, then file a packaging request or merge request.
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.