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🚀 FlavourMod AI Engine

Turn every Reddit post into a real-time AI moderation dashboard powered by native sticky comments.


🎥 Live Demo

Watch FlavourMod moderate Reddit posts in real time using AI-powered sticky dashboards.

🔗 Demo Video:
https://vimeo.com/1195668413?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci

🔗 GitHub Repository:
https://github.com/flavourmod-ai/flavourmod-ai


🧠 Inspiration

Modern moderation systems are fundamentally disconnected from where content actually lives.

Most communities rely on:

  • external moderation dashboards
  • delayed review queues
  • hidden decision-making systems
  • fragmented admin workflows

While studying Reddit moderation workflows, a key issue became clear:

Moderation should not exist outside the platform — it should exist inside the post itself.

This led to FlavourMod AI Engine — a system where every Reddit post becomes a real-time AI moderation dashboard, powered directly inside Reddit using sticky comments.

No external tools. No hidden decisions. No delays.

Just native, explainable, real-time moderation.


⚡ What it does

FlavourMod Dashboard

FlavourMod transforms every Reddit post into a live AI-powered moderation interface embedded directly inside Reddit.

Each post automatically generates a sticky comment dashboard that updates in real time and displays:

  • 🧾 Moderation decision (Approve / Review / Remove)
  • 🧠 AI reasoning and explainable outputs
  • 📊 Confidence score
  • 🚩 Rule-based + AI-generated moderation flags
  • 🔄 Live updates as content changes

Result:

A Reddit post becomes a self-contained moderation system UI, not just content.


🏗️ How we built it

Built With

Devvit, TypeScript, OpenAI API, KV Storage, Node.js, Realtime Events


🔄 Event-Driven Architecture

Reddit Post Created

Devvit PostCreate Trigger

KV Queue System

Lock-Safe Async Worker Engine

Hybrid AI Moderation Layer (OpenAI + Rule Engine)

Decision Engine

Sticky Comment Dashboard Renderer

Realtime KV Synchronization


🧠 Core Systems

Core systems include:

  • realtime moderation pipeline
  • async worker architecture
  • lock-safe execution system
  • hybrid AI scoring engine
  • sticky dashboard rendering
  • realtime KV synchronization
  • observability and trace logging

🤖 AI Decision Model

FlavourMod uses a hybrid reasoning system:

[ Final\ Score = AI_{confidence} + Rule_{score} ]

Inline math:

( Score = AI_{confidence} + Rule_{weight} )


🔥 Challenges we ran into

🔒 Duplicate Worker Execution

Solved using:

  • lock-safe KV coordination
  • idempotent worker design

🔄 Realtime Synchronization Complexity

We synchronized:

  • KV state
  • moderation decisions
  • worker logs
  • sticky comment updates

in real time without inconsistencies.


🧠 Explainable AI Moderation

Instead of only labels, FlavourMod generates:

  • reasoning
  • confidence scores
  • structured moderation flags
  • transparent decision traces

⚡ No External Dashboard Constraint

We eliminated external moderation dashboards entirely by building a Reddit-native sticky comment moderation UI system.


🏆 Accomplishments

  • built a fully working realtime moderation pipeline
  • created a Reddit-native sticky dashboard system
  • implemented lock-safe async worker execution
  • designed explainable AI moderation outputs
  • built production-style event-driven architecture
  • achieved realtime KV synchronization
  • delivered a complete end-to-end working moderation system

⭐ Key achievement:

Replacing traditional moderation dashboards with a fully embedded Reddit-native AI moderation experience.


📚 What we learned

  • realtime systems
  • event-driven architecture
  • async worker infrastructure
  • AI moderation design
  • explainable AI principles
  • observability systems
  • Devvit platform development

Transparency is just as important as automation in AI-assisted moderation systems.


🚀 What’s next

Future improvements planned for FlavourMod AI Engine include:

  • moderator action buttons
  • multi-subreddit scaling
  • advanced moderation analytics
  • collaborative moderation workflows
  • adaptive AI feedback learning
  • historical moderation intelligence
  • realtime visualization upgrades

🌍 Vision

FlavourMod aims to become:

A fully embedded, transparent, AI-assisted moderation infrastructure platform inside Reddit.

Not an external tool — a native moderation layer for Reddit.


Built With

  • ai
  • async-worker-pipeline
  • devvit
  • kv-queue-system
  • moderation
  • openai-gpt
  • realtime-event-sync
  • reddit-developer-platform
  • typescript
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