Vasilis Danias and Sergio Pereira – founders of Bitloops.
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Why Frontend Is Still the Bottleneck
Design is fast. Shipping it? Not so much. The situation usually looks like this: Someone has a great product idea. The design team turns it into a beautiful Figma file. Then… nothing. Weeks pass. Devs are swamped. The momentum dies.
Some teams vibe code it with a no-code tool or a few ChatGPT prompts. It works, kind of, but never really looks or behaves the way it should. That thing your designer carefully placed in the top-left corner? Now floating somewhere near the footer.
That might be fine for internal tools or quick tests. But the frontend of a real product, what users actually see and interact with, needs to be 100% right. Not 95%. Not close enough. It has to match the design, work on every device, and reflect your brand perfectly. That’s where Bitloops comes in.
It turns Figma designs into clean and pixel-perfect, responsive React code. Code you can ship and maintain as if you have written it yourself. As a VS Code extension, it plugs right into the developer’s workflow and outputs production-ready components: reusable, testable, and styled to your team’s conventions.
Why We Invested
Sometimes you walk into a meeting and you just know.
It was during a trip to Greece, where we were running office hours with local founders. That’s when Viktor sat down with the Bitloops team for the first time. It didn’t take long. The potential was obvious. If the technical side worked, it could unlock massive value. Viktor passed Bitloops straight to our Future of Work team, and it clicked just as quickly. The problem was validated instantly.
Still, what sealed it for us was the team. Sergio and Vasilis had the clarity, urgency, and founder chemistry we always look for. Vasilis had just had a baby but still showed up in person to meet with us. That tells you everything. They were all in from day one, and so were we.
How It’s Different
Can’t ChatGPT Do It?
Bitloops isn’t just another AI tool that throws together a bunch of basic layout blocks and calls it a day. It stands out because it understands the dual modality of application frontend: logic and visuals. LLMs like ChatGPT are great at the first part. They can generate code that technically works. But when it comes to actually ”seeing” and interpreting a visual design or knowing if something looks right, they simply fall short.
What About Lovable?
No-code tools like Lovable are great if you need to quickly throw something together. You can get from 0 to 80% in a matter of a few prompts. The trouble starts when you want the layout to look exactly like the design (and let’s be honest, you usually do). That last 20%? The spacing fixes, the UI quirks, the off-brand styles? That’s where things break down. It can take hours or even days to get it right.
Okay, So What Sets Bitloops Apart?
Bitloops is built for high-fidelity execution. It turns even very complex Figma files into clean, responsive, and accurate code, exactly as the designer intended. It’s not just fast. It’s structured in a way that developers can actually maintain and build on.
That kind of structure becomes extremely important when you’re building real products, like a polished company website or a product UI where every detail matters and the work doesn’t stop at launch.
With Bitloops, the way developers work shifts. Instead of spending hours on repetitive layout implementation, they can focus on solving harder, more meaningful problems. Bitloops handles the grunt work without cutting corners on quality.
Why Now, and Why This Market
There’s a clear shortage of frontend developers, and it is smaller companies – startups and SMEs – that feel this pain the most. They move fast, but often lack the senior engineering capacity to turn high-quality designs into production-ready UI. And yet, that’s exactly what their users expect.
Bitloops is going after exactly this underserved segment. Smaller teams are quicker to adopt new tools, have less internal complexity, and tend to build using widely adopted stacks like React – now powering 40% of the web. These companies represent nearly half of the €12 billion design-to-code market, and they’re desperate for tools that let them move faster without sacrificing quality.
The Team Behind It
Bitloops started in a familiar way: two colleagues got too frustrated by one and the same problem happening over and over again.
At the time, Sergio and Vasilis were scaling a large multinational mobility company. Sergio was leading operations in Portugal, Vasilis in Greece. Time and time again, they hit the same wall: not enough engineering resources to build what was needed. Features got delayed. Fixes dragged on. Users and teammates would ask, “Why aren’t we fixing this? It’s critical for the business.” But when the business turned to engineering for a timeline, the answer was often: “It’ll take weeks or maybe months.”
Both Vasilis and Sergio had technical backgrounds and knew this wasn’t just about prioritization. It was a bottleneck in how frontend work actually gets done. That’s why they teamed up to solve the problem they couldn’t ignore anymore. Three of their former teammates joined them soon after. The five of them had worked side by side before, and formed a tight, focused team with deep trust and strong technical instincts. They’ve seen firsthand what slow frontend delivery costs a company and they’re building the fix.
What’s Next
With €1M led by Eleven Ventures and Corallia Ventures, Bitloops is going to be growing the team, deepening design integrations, and expanding beyond static sites.
They are now building the frontend copilot all developers and product-obsessed people wish existed. If you’re tired of dev bottlenecks, join the waitlist and see for yourself. This is what frontend should feel like.
