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.
Develop a neutral, sourced learning project about privacy, accessibility, or online-scam literacy and cite your tool only in relevant exercises.
Publish your reusable -backed privacy or security script, flow, app, or resource type for the public Windmill Hub.
Build a genuine founder or designer profile and publish your detailed UX, accessibility, or privacy-design case study with accurate role and process credits.
Package your free-software self-hosted deployment, implement reliable install, upgrade, backup and restore operations, then submit it to the official app catalog.
Build a defensive Zeek script or plugin for privacy-safe log inspection, include zkg metadata and tests, then register it in the default Zeek package source.
Publish your genuine open dataset, benchmark, software release, poster, or reproducible research artifact and connect its related identifier to your tool.
Build a minimal-scope Zoom app that sends selected meeting content to your explicit privacy or redaction workflow and links its support, privacy, and documentation pages.
Build a useful Coda Pack that connects to your tool functionality and publish it to the Gallery with documentation and support links.
Host your genuine privacy/tool workshop or webinar; add your tool in the organizer website field and useful event description.
Create your verified listing with Indian phone, address, category, hours, website, social links, and product or service details.
Use the free submission tier for your standard listing.
Publish an original interactive notebook showing transparent your tool benchmark, privacy, performance, or tool-usage data and cite your relevant pages.
Build and document your Odoo module, register its repository, and upload a maintained free or paid listing.
Create an accessible, openly licensed handbook or course text with structured chapters, exercises, citations, and relevant links, then make the webbook public for directory discovery.
Use the free listing path for your tool; evaluate paid multi-directory service separately.
Create a public Tool Trust Notes newsletter site with original privacy, accessibility, founder, and engineering field reports, using your tool links only where they directly support each issue.
Pitch an original standards, accessibility, privacy, or responsible-web essay based on first-hand product engineering experience.
Build and upload a real conda package with homepage, documentation, source and license metadata.
Verify the organization, claim any legitimate your tool location, and add logo, hours, images, website, and key details.
Curate a thoughtful public channel on local-first privacy, scam safety, or accessible-tool design, adding your tool only among diverse high-quality resources with original annotations.
Pitch your genuinely differentiated launch or an original opinion on privacy, security, and useful web tooling.
Register a real founder or engineer profile and publish an original code-backed tutorial on privacy-safe browser tooling, mentioning your tool only where it is part of the implementation.
Apply with founder expertise and pitch an actionable digital-experience, privacy, AI-governance, or trust article.
Build a Crisp plugin for deliberate conversation privacy checks or sanitized exports and submit your clear marketplace profile.
Propose a lived-experience frontend article on accessible tool interfaces, privacy-safe browser APIs, CSS, or performance.
Submit your security-focused product or tool for editorial classification.
Build a functional Stream Deck plugin that launches configured your tool checks and displays useful audit states or results, then publish it through Elgato's Maker Console.
Pitch a practical, outcome-based tutorial on client-side privacy, accessible UI, or web safety using original examples and an honest author identity.
Publish authentic your tool UX screenshots and case studies, then add a custom page or navigation link to the matching live tool.
Write an original technical article about a broadly useful browser-security, privacy, or accessibility technique and cite your tool only when it is a necessary working example.
Submit accurate company, founder and product details so your tool can be evaluated for Harmonic's startup database.
Publish a detailed build or usage tutorial around your original workflow, with the relevant tool link only where it helps readers.
Publish original sanitized essays on privacy engineering, safe document processing, or accessible product design, using your tool only as a relevant implementation example.
Publish a small original demo showing one your tool privacy or accessibility technique, then share its encoded URL or deploy the project to a controlled GitHub Pages site.
Publish original your tool privacy, safety, or accessibility micro-animations as a coherent creator collection, with a contextual project link where the profile permits it.
Create a monday app that runs selected board exports through your privacy, accessibility, or reporting workflow and provides documented results.
Build an admin plugin that scans selected product content or exports for PII, accessibility, and fraud-risk signals.
Build an October CMS plugin that runs your tool privacy or accessibility checks on administrator-selected content and media.
Start your small human-written lab notebook with original build lessons, accessibility fixes, and privacy experiments, linking to tools only when they support the post.
Publish polished public your tool demos and use their share links in genuine tutorials or reproducible examples.
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.