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My name is Costa Alexoglou.
I am a Senior 👨‍🦳 software engineer, building Design Systems and other cool stuff.

Writing

Context Menus that don’t suck, with Safe Areas

May 17, 2023

Mastering a nested dropdown menu is no easy feat. Ensuring a seamless user…

Solving Clmystery

March 14, 2021

Why I…

Create Postcode map from OpenStreetMap data

December 20, 2020

Why I even started working on this madness? Anyo…

How AI will enable Predictive Design in Creatives

April 05, 2019

rtificial Intelligence is…

Multi-threading or Multi-processing with Python and Selenium

February 10, 2019

What is the best way to speed up Selenium paraller tasks? Multi-threading or…

Shut the portrait up

January 10, 2019

The problem Open offices are killing productivity. It's not me that is saying t…

Going from Wordpress to Gatsby

January 06, 2019

State of Gatsby This year's Github report about projects revealed something…

Enable Formatting with ERB files in VScode

July 18, 2018

I was searching online for a ERB beautifier and couldn’t find a complete…

A simple blink detector using a small convolutional neural network with Python

October 02, 2017

This article is written by Jason and was originally hosted in my Wordpress blog…

Brute Forcing Forms with Scrapy

August 28, 2017

I recently had the opportunity for me and my team to attend WebSummit as a…

Projects

VisualEyes
LiveFund Raised
VisualEyes

VisualEyes started as a spin-off product from Loceye. Using predictive models, we helped more than 20.000 creative people design better through continuous feedback.

Lithos
WIP
Lithos

Lithos is the first real-estate oriented data provider in Greece. We gathered, cleaned and aggregated data from open sources, like Diavgeia and distribute them in BI interfaces.

Tweecks
WIP
Tweecks

A website that shows the best tricks that can be found on Twitter. Tricks for design, coding and growth hacking.

Loceye
LiveFund Raised
Loceye

(VC Backed) The first accurate webcam eye-tracking platform. Loceye.io is used by Market Researchers to perform scalable eye-tracking studies.

Tradestats
Live
Tradestats

Tradestats started when I started trading on Revolut. When I noticed that making a decision required to switch between 3 apps, I knew I had to scrape the web and aggregate them.

Unicorn Products
Live
Unicorn Products

While Dribbble is perfect for UI inspiration, most of the designs and copies fail solve real problems of my startup. That's why I created Unicorn Products.

Open Source

gatsby-wordpress-migrate

With gatsby-wordpress-migrate you can convert all your wordpress posts to gatsby-blog compatible in a fraction of a command.

airport-autocomplete-js

Airport search & autocomplete package, helping people build airport searching powered apps.