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 and test a Snowflake Native App for privacy-safe data inspection, create its application package and listing, pass scans, and publish through an eligible provider account.
Submit your tool with a concise problem statement, clear screenshots, founder information, and the canonical product URL.
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.
Submit your tool with logo, description, pricing and screenshot for permanent listing.
Submit AI tools/features with multilingual description.
Submit one relevant your tool AI utility with correct category, pricing, short description, useful features, professions and tags.
Submit AI-facing feature; contact for verification.
Document your tool privacy, accessibility, and tool-discovery UX as a credible case study and link to the live product from relevant case-study text.
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.
Start your focused field-notes blog and publish useful privacy, accessibility, and security explainers with natural source links.
Distribute your substantial launch or privacy/security research story with media, founder quote, and one canonical URL.
Submit your tool strongest responsive or product page with a clean screenshot and concise design summary.
Submit a specific AI-powered product with a functional site, clear pricing, precise name, original description, and suitable images.
Submit a specific, working AI-powered your tool experience with honest copy, pricing, images, and a direct product 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.
Submit a high-resolution screenshot, short design description, relevant categories, and your official URL.
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.
Build a truthful founder or your tool show profile, link relevant credentials, and book privacy, security or accessibility interviews.
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.
Add your tool website listing.
Publish backlink tracker/content calendar template.
Create maintained Bazel rules or a module that invokes your real security utility, then submit it to BCR.
Publish UI/brand case study for your tool.
Create public repo for embed SDK/example package.
Create founder/brand profile linking your tool.
Create business citation profile.
Create your profile and add genuinely useful homepage, privacy-tool and accessibility-tool links.
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.