Integrated application development systems and methods

A computer-implemented method for online software development of custom software applications, comprising:

• receiving a plurality of wireframes prepared for a proposed custom software application sought to be developed by a user;
• performing a comparison between the wireframes and software screens for previously developed custom software applications;
• detecting matches between the wireframes and software screens;
• identifying features available on an online software development application for developing custom software applications that correspond to the matches;
• providing a graphical user interface on a display of a client device, and implement simulations of a plurality of features available for demonstration through the graphical user interface;
• storing blocks of source code for each feature in a source code repository, wherein the blocks are adapted to provide an actual application when compiled by developers;
• receiving from the client device, by a server running a software building component of the online software development application, one or more selected features for the proposed custom software application;
• automatically integrating, by the software building component, the one or more selected features to generate an integrated feature set based on attributes of each of the selected features and an inter-feature rules set, and
• generating on the graphical user interface an interactive visualization of a navigable prototype of the software application based on the integrated feature set.

Computer readable medium, comprising nonvolatile memory, wherein the nonvolatile memory comprising computer readable instructions that are executed by a computer and configure the computer to operate, where in the computer readable instructions comprising steps including:

• receiving a plurality of wireframes prepared for a proposed custom software application sought to be developed by a user of a online software development system;
• performing a comparison between the wireframes and software screens for previously developed custom software applications;
• detecting matches between the wireframes and software screens;
• identifying features available on the online software development system for developing custom software applications that correspond to the matches;
• providing a graphical user interface on a display of a client device, and implement simulations of a plurality of features available for demonstration through the graphical user interface;
• storing blocks of source code for each feature in a source code repository, wherein the blocks are adapted to provide an actual application when compiled by developers;
• receiving from the client device, by a server running a software building component of a software development application, one or more selected features for the proposed custom software application;
• automatically integrating, by the software building component, the one or more selected features to generate an integrated feature set based on attributes of each of the selected features and an inter-feature rules set, and
• generating on the graphical user interface an interactive visualization of a navigable prototype of the software application based on the integrated feature set.