YouAsk

YouAsk is the audience-engagement layer for events that want a live Q&A but don't want a chat-room free-for-all. Questions land from a public form or by SMS via Twilio, an admin moderates and answers in real time, the approved Q&A flows to a public display board, and the contact funnel quietly captures lead info on the way through.

Three surfaces, one app

• Public / — the audience question form, mobile-first, no signup required, rate limited so a single bored attendee can't flood the queue.
• WeDeliver /wedeliver — a themable public display with multi-logo presets and configurable layout/background, optionally rendering sanitized markdown for richer answers.
• Admin /admin — the moderation console: triage incoming questions, draft answers, approve to display, and pull XLSX exports of questions, leads, logs, SMS, and unified contacts.

How it stays honest

• Twilio signature verification on inbound SMS so the queue can't be spoofed by a stray webhook.
• CSRF on every admin mutation, paired with a centralized adminFetch helper that normalizes error handling.
• Rate-limited public surface — 429 with Retry-After on overflow, so the contact funnel and the question queue both survive a bursty audience.
• Structured logs with admin username and request id correlation, so post-event audits don't turn into log archeology.
• No-mock test policy — Go tests hit a real persistent test DB, smoke tests hit live URLs; nothing in CI passes that wouldn't pass in production.

Why a Q&A app at all

Every event MC has the same problem: the room has questions, a microphone is too slow, a Slido-style overlay is too much, and a crew member with a clipboard is the worst of all worlds. YouAsk gives the moderator a queue, the audience a way in, the broadcast a clean display, and the operations team a contact list at the end of the night.