There will always be at least one thing that was more complex than expected.
Even finishing a project looks good to employers.
This post explains that even adding a word counter can be complex.
http://blog.intercom.io/there-are-no-small-changes/
"Do we crop the string, or display an error message to the user? If we display an error, where does it appear? What does it say? Who is going to write the error message? How do we explain to the user why we’re limiting them to 140 characters? How will these errors look? Do we have a style defined? If not, who is designing it?"