title: Slack bot to pre-format channel responses of structured data input from user
body: <p>At work we have a Slack channel where each person posts their daily scrum updates. The format is something like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Yesterday:
  
   - Did something
   - Did something else
  
  Today:
  
   - Did something
   - Did something else
  
  Blocks:
  
   - This is blocking my progress
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Now, I'm trying to find a way in which I can have this preformatted for my colleagues i.e. like placeholder text in HTML</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/iUhc0.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/iUhc0.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to achieve this in Slack? </p>
  
  <p>The options I have considered so far are as seen <a href="https://api.slack.com/custom-integrations" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>
   1. Create a <code>/</code> command on Slack that would respond with this text when a user types <code>/daily</code> and populate the response (I'm not sure about the feasibility of this, I have only created slash commands that triggered an external process, not returned any text <em>to</em> Slack)
   2. Create a custom application and integrate with Slack</p>
  
  <p>I realize that the answer to this can be opinionated, and that that is discouraged in the community, but I'm thinking others might also have come across this issue or will, in the future, and the answer is relatively objective here, not purely subjective.</p>