How do I make my niche knowledge discoverable for future rabbit holers?

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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 · Accepted Answer

Blog 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.

hiAndrewQuinn · Answer

My own answer to this question last year came in the form of 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 repo, which you can see at 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
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.

nicbou · Answer

Put 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 · Answer

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How do I make my niche knowledge discoverable for future rabbit holers?

Blog 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.

Put 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.

Is it technical? Reply on stackoverflow