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Ask HN: How do I make my niche knowledge discoverable for future rabbit holers?
Over the past week, I've went pretty deep into a few rabbit holes that I'm sure a few others will fall into years later. There are a few old threads asking the exact same question that never got answered in decade old archived forums.
How do I answer the question in a way that it will appear in future searches? Is it socially acceptable to ask&answer the question on stack overflow as a form of documentation?
- zer00eyz 2y agoBlog post, then link on as many relevant places as possible ... here, reddit etc... You can link off to all the old post, tell a story, provide an answer.
- rareitem 2y agoYeah, future hole rabbitters will look for that information on the internet, so make it available on the internet
- pavel_lishin 2y agoDon't forget the internet archive.
- _lvbh 2y agoI don't think it's interesting enough to write a blog but helpful/difficult enough that it should go somewhere, maybe as just a 5 line explanation and some code samples. I wonder if there is a site for infrequently asked questions similar to stack overflow but for people to document niche short things and make obscure links more discoverable with a gelbooru-esq tagging system. If that doesn't exist, I would definitely build one myself if not just to host my own collection of random snippets
- ahazred8ta 2y agoThere's usually a relevant Reddit subreddit. Include enough search terms at the bottom of your post and your solution will be discoverable. For redundancy, put it in something like a github gist as well. Also email or contact some of the people who previously asked the question.
- nicbou 2y agoPut it on a static website that you fully control. I started doing this years ago for German immigration and it turned into a career. My personal blog is also full of similar stuff about cars, motorcycles and tech. People still find those answers years later.
- sabbaticaldev 2y agoIs it technical? Reply on stackoverflow
- hiAndrewQuinn 2y agoMy own answer to this question last year came in the form of https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/til https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/til, which is just a messy list of Markdown files. The lowest-effort thing I could think of. That messy list gets built into an actual website by the https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/til-site https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/til-site repo, which you can see at https://hiandrewquinn.github.io/til-site/ https://hiandrewquinn.github.io/til-site/. I used your plight, and your catchy name, as inspiration to abstract this pattern out into a new software project. I hereby present to you, the first, bleeding-edge draft of Rabbitholer: https://github.com/Siilikuin/rabbitholer https://github.com/Siilikuin/rabbitholer Thank you for being my muse! I've wanted to scratch this itch for a long time now. I don't have a good answer for SEO yet, beyond "pick words good and people will find it". But that gets easier and easier with practice.