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 your tool AI utilities and choose free review or paid placement.
Create a free page only for your genuine local office or service area and add accurate story, categories, website, and contact data.
Register an actual neuroimaging privacy, quality-control, or data-processing tool through NITRC's resource workflow.
Submit your tool (or its blog/feed where required) under productivity, privacy or developer tools.
Post a substantive study of privacy-preserving browser tools or redaction reliability with transparent methods and data.
Submit your tool as a genuine indie product and complete the requested launch information.
Upload an unpublished evaluation study or research poster about your privacy or accessibility method with supporting code and data.
Submit your tool (or its blog/feed where required) under productivity, privacy or developer tools.
Build a genuine Solid privacy utility that lets users choose identity providers and stores or retrieves their data from Solid Pods, then confirm the current listing handoff with maintainers.
Apply only if the operating company is genuinely incorporated in Latvia and fits the database's scalable-startup criteria.
Apply for a profile only if your tool is operated by a scalable high-tech startup incorporated and headquartered in Switzerland.
Create one branded Taplink page and add a curated set of your tool product, category and contact links.
List your genuine paid B2B product or service, complete the company profile, and provide accurate seller documentation.
List an operational CSIRT, CERT, SOC, ISAC or PSIRT after securing sponsors and passing the community-vote process.
Submit your real release to the free weekly launch queue.
If your component is built with or for a public body, publish a standards self-assessment and pursue stewardship/assessment.
Submit your tool for manual inclusion in the software directory.
Develop a maintained Zabbix template/integration for your tool and apply for Integration Partner review and Marketplace visibility.
Consider a verified vendor profile only if the India-focused buyer exposure justifies a recurring listing budget.
Consider only after your tool has a substantial AI feature and the directory offers business value beyond a link.
Onboard your operational research-facing service through an eligible EOSC Node using the Federation Handbook process.
Apply as Associate or full Member only after operating a credible incident-response team/program and completing sponsorship/review.
Apply only with a meaningful open agent-security or MCP-governance contribution and an ongoing participation plan.
Apply only after operating a real civil-society digital-security help desk and meeting network operations and vetting requirements.
Apply only after your tool operates a genuine OA scholarly-book publishing program, then submit peer-reviewed privacy-tech books.
Join only when your tool will fund and actively contribute to open-source AI or data work.
Join only to contribute substantively to relevant security or privacy technical committees and use approved organization metadata.
After releasing meaningful OSI-licensed code, consider sponsorship only when supporting OSI aligns with your tool strategy.
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.