Post Daily Standup To Slack

What It Does

Posts three standup questions to your Slack channel every weekday morning at 8:45 AM UTC, fifteen minutes before most standup calls. The team sees the prompt, prepares their update, and shows up ready. No manual reminder needed, no forgetting, and no cold-start silence at the beginning of the call.

Why It Matters

Engineering teams waste the first few minutes of every standup waiting for people to think about what they did yesterday. A prompt sent early gives everyone time to prepare. Standups get shorter, more focused, and more useful.

How It Works

1. Scheduled Trigger: Fires every weekday at 8:45 AM UTC.
2. Slack: Posts the standup prompt directly to the configured channel.

What You Get

1. Daily standup prompt posted before the call.
2. Structured questions covering yesterday, today, and blockers.
3. Consistent format every day with zero manual effort.
4. Silent weekends.

Who It Is For

1. Engineering teams of any size who run daily standups.
2. Remote and distributed teams across timezones.
3. Engineering managers who want consistent participation.
4. Startup teams without a dedicated standup bot.

Configuration and Setup

Customize It

1. Change the time by editing the cron schedule.
2. Edit the Slack message to add your team name or custom questions.
3. Add a fourth question like 'What are you shipping this week?' for sprint-focused teams.

Timezone Adjustments

Built By

Shamanth Kumar M, Staff Technical Program Manager with fourteen-plus years in engineering delivery. Building intelligent automation systems that replace manual work, from sprint tracking to DevOps pipelines to delivery health dashboards.