Application development involving instant prototyping

A system for developing software

• comprising:
• at least one processor;
• and
• at least one memory operatively coupled to the at least one processor, the at least one processor configured to acquire computer readable instructions stored in the at least one memory and execute the instructions comprising instructions to cause the system to:
• provide a graphical user interface on a display of a client device, the graphical user interface displaying a plurality of features from a library of user-selectable features for a custom software application and implement simulations of a plurality of the features available for demonstration through the graphical user interface;
• store 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;
• receive from the client device, by a server running a software building component of a software development application, one or more selected features for the software application;
• automatically integrate, by the software building component, the one or more selected features that generate an integrated feature set based on attributes of each of the selected features and an inter-feature rules set, wherein the system sends a query to a graph database implemented using nodes and edges and storing a history of projects and controlling connections between features using the graph database, and
• generate on the graphical user interface an interactive visualization of a navigable prototype of the software application based on the integrated feature set.