Built a full-stack web app using React, Node.js and PostgreSQL.

It's true, but it tells the reader almost nothing. Thousands of people have built a React app. A recruiter wants to know what problem you solved, which parts you did yourself, and how they can tell it worked.

I write project bullets by answering three questions, using evidence that's already in the repo.

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The three questions

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What problem does the project solve? Answer in one sentence that someone who has never seen the code would understand.

What did you personally do? This matters most when other people touched the project.

What evidence is there? Tests, a live deploy, a README, a measured result: anything a reviewer could check.

A bullet that answers fewer than two of these is really just a list of technologies.

A worked example

The candidate and project below are made up for this post.

Sara built ShiftSwap, a small app that lets staff at a café trade shifts.…