The Daily Stand Up is a brief meeting where team members share their progress, blockers, and goals. Due to being distributed, the author of the text created a chat-bot in Slack to individually share updates with the whole team. To apply this idea to family, the author used Vonage's Messages & Dispatch APIs to create a consolidated channel for weekly updates. The tutorial guides through creating a Vonage account, purchasing a phone number, and setting up an application using Glitch. The app is designed to send a text once a week, with the option to receive responses from family members and showcase them on the frontend. The project uses Node-Schedule to schedule the text sending and Express.js for routing and logging.