Failed side project sat on my resume for two years before someone finally asked about it in an interview
Built a scheduling app for a coworking space that never shipped past a broken beta. Left it on my resume out of laziness more than strategy, one line, no metrics because there weren't any. Finally got asked about it properly in a screen last month, not the shipped stuff, this one. Spent twenty minutes on why it broke, what I'd change now, what I learned about scope creep. That was the most engaged an interviewer's been with anything I said all cycle. Still not sure if I should polish that line up or leave it exactly as unfinished as it actually was.
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AnonymousAnon The fact that it survived two years of resume edits probably says something, most people cut anything that isn't a clean win pretty fast. Good that someone finally asked, sounds like there was more to talk about there than the shipped stuff.