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Guides, tutorials, and insights on content moderation and App Store compliance.
App Store Rejection for User-Generated Content: How to Fix It
Got rejected by App Store for missing content moderation? Here's exactly how to fix it — common rejection messages decoded, step-by-step remediation, and templates for your resubmission.
App Store vs Google Play: Content Moderation Requirements Compared
Apple and Google both require content moderation for UGC apps, but their requirements differ. Here's a side-by-side comparison and how to satisfy both platforms with one integration.
Hive Moderation vs Vettly: Developer-First Content Moderation
Hive Moderation has strong visual AI but requires a sales call and custom pricing. Compare developer experience, onboarding, pricing transparency, and built-in workflows.
Beyond OpenAI Moderation: When You Need More Than a Score
OpenAI's moderation endpoint is fast and free but text-only with no policies, webhooks, or audit trails. Here's when to graduate to a production moderation API.
Perspective API Alternative: Why Developers Are Switching
Google's Perspective API is text-only with no webhooks, policies, or user management. Here's what developers need in a modern content moderation API and how to migrate.
How to Moderate User-Generated Content in a React Native App
Add text, image, and video moderation to a React Native app with a single API integration. Covers pre-publish filtering, user reporting, and blocking.
Building a Content Moderation Pipeline for Marketplace Listings
Design a moderation pipeline for marketplace listings that covers text, images, pricing abuse, and seller verification using a single API.
How to Add Content Moderation to a Discord Bot
Build a Discord bot that moderates messages, images, and user profiles in real time using the Vettly API and discord.js.
Image Moderation for Social Apps: A Developer's Guide
Implement image moderation for social apps using the Vettly API. Covers NSFW detection, violence filtering, and policy-driven decisions for user-uploaded photos.
COPPA Compliance for UGC Apps: What Developers Need to Know
A developer-focused guide to COPPA compliance for apps with user-generated content. Covers age gating, parental consent, data minimization, and moderation requirements.
Meeting the EU Digital Services Act (DSA) Requirements for Content Moderation
A practical guide for developers on implementing content moderation systems that comply with the EU Digital Services Act, covering transparency, notice-and-action, and appeals.
GDPR and Content Moderation: Balancing Safety with Privacy
How to build content moderation systems that comply with GDPR. Covers lawful basis for processing, data minimization, retention, and subject access requests.
Google Play Store Content Policy: A Moderation Checklist for Android Developers
A checklist for Android developers to meet Google Play's content moderation requirements, covering UGC policies, reporting, appeals, and enforcement.
Content Moderation for AI Chatbots: Filtering LLM Outputs
How to add content moderation to AI chatbot outputs. Covers output filtering, policy-driven decisions, and handling jailbreak attempts with the Vettly API.
Building Safe AI Agents: A Practical Guide to Runtime Guardrails
How to add runtime guardrails to AI agents that take real-world actions. Covers authorization patterns, fail-closed defaults, and policy-driven safety for MCP and tool-use agents.
Why Prompt Engineering Is Not Enough for AI Safety
Prompt engineering is the first line of defense for AI safety, but it's not sufficient alone. Learn why you need independent moderation, runtime guardrails, and policy-driven safety.
Moderation Policies as Code: Managing Content Rules with YAML
Define content moderation policies in YAML instead of hardcoded rules. Covers policy structure, versioning, testing, and deployment for moderation-as-code workflows.
Introducing OpenClaw Guardrails - Runtime Safety for AI Agents
OpenClaw Guardrails lets you vet agent skills before install and authorize every runtime action in-path. Fail-closed defaults mean outages never silently bypass safety.
How to Pass Apple's App Store Guideline 1.2 for UGC Apps
A step-by-step guide to meeting Apple's Guideline 1.2 requirements for content filtering, user reporting, blocking, and audit trails in UGC apps.