I sometimes struggle with coming up ideas to write about for my blog. This is a method I figured out that makes it relatively simple to come up with blog topics that a) you yourself wish someone had written about (and presumably someone else does or will too) and b) might not have enough relevant writing in the internet yet, hence being somewhat of a niche to target as well.
I’ll demonstrate:
Lately, I’ve been dealing a lot with Supabase and some of its more complex aspects, like optimizing row level security rules or figuring out good methods for authentication impersonation. Some solutions I have found for these topics would make for good blog posts in my opinion, but the problem is finding good topics to write about after the fact.
However, there is an easy solution: just look up which questions did you have to look up, filter out the ones that already have good articles in search results, and see if any of the remaining keywords would be usable for good articles.
My history
Here’s how I came up with with an article about Supabase impersonation:
- I looked up what I’ve searched about “supabase” in Google from my history
- You can also use Google’s “My Activity”, but I like browser history better
- Looked like I had a lot of questions about access tokens, rls, and user impersonation strategies, so I looked up again what results those yielded
- Since there was no conclusive, well-written articles yet about the topic, I chose to write one
- The article is now one of the first results when searching for “supabase impersonate user”