Press Releases

Following a string of new contracts for mobile loyalty apps for the craft beverage industry, Boca Raton, Florida-based software designer Daruma Tech has signed on to build an app for the Brewers Guild of Alaska. With the app, Alaska’s craft beer aficionados will be able to find breweries near them, see what’s on tap, and even plan and map their own personalized tours of selected breweries. In addition, they will be able to earn points towards [...]

BOCA RATON, FLORIDA —Daruma Tech, developers of custom software solutions for the transportation, hospitality, and other specialty sectors, has completed an ambitious website overhaul for the Palm Beach Transportation Planning Agency (Palm Beach TPA). The new site entailed a complete reorganization and rebuild of the complex site and features a refreshed graphic design and more user-friendly front-end and back-end user interfaces. Having a robust, easy-to-navigate website was mission critical for Palm Beach TPA, a federally [...]

Rhode Island Craft Beer Week, a festive statewide celebration of local breweries and beer organized by the Rhode Island Brewers Guild, proved to be a smashing success, drawing thousands of curious craft beer lovers to special promotions, tastings, contests, concerts, and more at the guild’s 36 member breweries as well as at participating restaurants, bars, and liquor stores. Contributing to the high levels of excitement and public engagement in Craft Beer Week—and enabling the [...]

BOCA RATON, FLORIDA—When the COVID pandemic forced craft wineries, distilleries, and breweries to close their tasting rooms, craft beverage guilds and associations across the country turned to Daruma Tech’s award-winning mobile passport apps as a creative way to promote takeout sales and keep member businesses afloat. And thanks to the apps’ ability to keep local craft beverage makers and their customers connected, organizations using the apps have not only survived, but are thriving. The [...]

BOCA RATON, FLORIDA—Software developer Daruma Tech, creator of award-winning mobile passport apps for artisanal food and beverage lovers, is moving into the distilled spirit space with a new app commissioned by the Colorado Distillers Guild.  With the app, a digitized upgrade of the guild’s paper Colorado Spirits Trail map, craft spirit aficionados will be able to find the distillery and tasting room closest to them; learn about the state’s distilleries, their offerings, and hours [...]

BOCA RATON, FLORIDA—South Florida college students will soon enjoy shorter and less-stressful commutes to campus while helping researchers better understand the link between accessible transportation and college success, thanks to U-Ride, a multi-modal mobile trip-planning app to be built by Boca Raton software developer Daruma Tech for Florida Atlantic University. U-Ride will calculate optimal routes incorporating real-time information from three South Florida public transportation agencies—South Florida Regional Transit Authority (SFTRA), Palm Tran, and Broward [...]

BOCA RATON, FLA—Software developer Daruma Tech, in partnership with healthcare startup ReachLink and the Florida Atlantic University (FAU) Research Park, is spearheading the development of a new podcast recording and production facility at its headquarters at the FAU Research Park.  The podcast room is available free of charge to incubating businesses at FAU Research Park and available for outside businesses to rent. The idea for the podcast room came about when Daruma Tech and [...]

HALIFAX, NS—Nova Scotia’s residents and visitors now have a powerful way to discover and experience the province’s famed seafood chowder, lobster, restaurants, and varied craft products and beverages, including coffee, wine, beer, spirits, and cider, thanks to a mobile passport app built by award-winning software developers Daruma Tech for Taste of Nova Scotia (TONS), a not-for-profit, membership based marketing association representing over 200 restaurant, producer/processor and industry members. The app, built on Daruma Tech’s [...]

BOCA RATON, FL, UNITED STATES, August 4, 2021 -- Thirsty travelers in Maryland now have a fun and easy new way to discover and connect with the state’s growing number of craft breweries, wineries, and distilleries, thanks to the new Maryland Craft Beverage mobile app, created by Boca Raton, FLA-based software developers Local Explorers, a Daruma Tech company, for Grow & Fortify, the advocacy group representing Maryland’s value-added agricultural producers, startups, and growers. The app, launched on [...]

BOCA RATON, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES, February 11, 2021 -- Communities now have an impactful new way to connect residents and visitors to homegrown businesses and products, thanks to the newly enhanced Local Explorers mobile app designed by Boca Raton-based software developer Daruma Tech. Local Explorers, a powerful and flexible upgrade of Daruma Tech’s popular, award-winning Brewers Marketing app, lets tourism boards, artisanal guilds, and other community advocates create branded mobile apps that let users [...]