No, you do not need daily water changes.

You can do several large water changes per week in the start......or not.........you can use Zeolite in the filter, that last about a month, you can add some media from an established filter etc, old established vacuumed dirt/mulm to a new tank, lots and lots of plants. And water changes............

All of these resolve NH4.

Doing all 3 and maybe 2x a week water change of 50% to start is a good method.

Regards,
Tom Barr