When a moderator does a action in the past 30 mins, it gets a human pulse.Indicating the moderators presence.
In the absence of a moderator the mod declares the crisis situation, meaning the mod-doctor will now take care of the community.
[Dashboard] The checklist you need to follow after installing the bot to utilize its powers completely.
[Dashboard] All the powers
The UI when you use a power [1]
The UI when you use a power [2]
The UI when you use a power [3] *not all powers UI I have shown but you can see and use them if you install the app

Inspiration

Most moderation tools are built to watch content or users. But who is watching the moderators? Behind every thriving subreddit is a human team that gets tired, takes vacations, or sleeps. When a team goes quiet, the community suffers. We wanted to build a tool that treats the subreddit like a living patient—monitoring its "heartbeat" (human actions) and ensuring that no community is ever left unattended, even when the humans are away.

What it does

Dr. Mod is a comprehensive "Subreddit Health Dashboard" powered by 12 specialized "Powers" in a centralized Control Room:

🩻 Sub Diagnosis (The Hero): A real-time 0–100 health score with a one-line diagnosis headline.
🏥 Crisis Detection: Monitors the "pulse" of human mod actions. If the team goes silent, the sub enters CRISIS.
🤖 AI Surgeon: Automatically takes over during a Crisis to approve or remove new posts based on your "Treatment Style."
🧑‍⚕️ Private Doc: A second pair of eyes that reviews present mod actions and suggests Auto-Rule improvements.
🩺 Mod Team Vitals: A real-time chart of who is active, idle, or flatlined.
📬 Mod Team Care: Automated, gentle modmail check-ins for teammates who haven't been seen in a week.
🔥 Burnout Watch: Predictive analytics that flag moderators who are at high risk of "flatlining" based on activity trends.
🌡️ Sub Temperature: A toxicity thermometer measuring the community's "fever" in real-time.
🎯 Find Good Moderators: An AI-powered talent scout that identifies the best potential mod candidates from your own community.
🗣️ User Appeal Flow: Author-to-mod appeal system for AI-automated removals.
📊 Weekly Health Report: A Sunday summary modmail of everything that happened.

How we built it

Our development journey was driven by one core problem: subreddit abandonment. We began with a simple Heartbeat Monitor to track moderator activity, but quickly hit a wall. Our initial "Featherless AI" minimalist approach—relying solely on basic heuristics—proved insufficient to handle the nuance of real-world moderation during downtime. We realized that to truly solve the problem of an unattended subreddit, the app needed a smarter cognitive layer.

This led to our first major pivot: integrating Google Gemini to act as an autonomous decision engine. This transformed the app from a simple stopwatch into a "Surgical AI" capable of maintaining community standards when humans are offline. Finally, we engineered a unified Dashboard Overlay inside the Live Monitor—not just for aesthetics, but a technical necessity to centralize the 12 distinct telemetry signals—from toxicity "Temperature" to "Burnout Watch"—into a single, actionable Control Room for the mod team.

Challenges we ran into

Integrating complex dashboard overlays inside the Reddit mobile webview was a challenge, specifically ensuring that static assets loaded reliably and that the "Heartbeat" animation performed smoothly at 60fps. We also spent significant time refining the "Diagnosis" logic to ensure it wasn't a "surveillance" tool, but a supportive "wellness" tool.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are incredibly proud of the Sub Diagnosis engine. It rolls dozens of signals (toxicity, pulse, burnout, team activity) into a single, intuitive number. We also achieved a "Zero-Touch" design—once configured, Dr. Mod can protect a subreddit entirely on its own if the mod team disappears.

What we learned

We learned that the most important part of a moderator's job isn't just removing bad content—it's maintaining a healthy, sustainable team. We learned how to balance AI automation with human oversight through our "Private Doc" supervision system.

What's next for Dr. Mod

We plan to expand the "Auto-Rule Doctor" to push suggestions directly to AutoModerator and add a "Triage Nurse" feature to automatically categorize and priority-sort the modmail inbox.

Note: Dr. Mod is the autonomous brand identity for the mod-doctor technical engine. A unified health substrate designed to ensure every subreddit under its care never misses a beat.