These losing Kickstarters got zero backers (pictures)

Kickended, a site dedicated to failed Kickstarters with no pledges, is full of music-related projects, but a few products snuck into the mix. These Bohemian Hemp Gladiator sandals are one of the unlucky few. Designed for the "modern flower child," the $75 footwear made from braided hemp and colorful beads received no pledges. Perhaps the high price tag for the minimal sandals was off-putting to potential backers.

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The Cakebox Kickstarter was a solution looking for a problem. It had a video with a soothing indie soundtrack, but didn't manage to garner even a single pledge dollar. The concept was a slide-out box containing several individual vertical slices of cake that didn't require a fork. At $25 for a small box of cake, the project had no bites. It ended with $0 in pledges and now resides at Kickended, an archive of unbacked projects.

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This Kickstarter project for a super-deep v-neck shirt designed to show off a man's muscles didn't manage to start a new fashion trend. Instead, it raised $0 toward an $800 goal and ended up in the archives at Kickended, a site that gathers together crowdfunding projects with no backers.

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Almost everybody likes cake, but absolutely nobody liked the Huney Cakes Kickstarter project. The project idea was noble enough. It was designed to raise money to expand a "cakery." It just failed to whet anyone's appetite thanks to the fuzzy photo of what appears to be a sloping hunk of chocolate cake with mystery decorations on top. It also failed to offer any form of cake as a reward. No wonder it ended up in Kickended's failed projects archive.

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The Stubby golf-training aid has a certain as-seen-on-TV sort of appeal. The failed Kickstarter suffered from a poor-quality pitch video and the fact that the product itself looks a bit bizarre. Built to represent the weight and balance of a real golf club, the idea was that backers would buy a Stubby and use it to hone their swings while indoors. It's not a bad idea, but it still looks like it could cause some damage to your furniture if you weren't careful about where you were swinging it.

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The Black Belt Brown Kickstarter project actually features an entertaining premise: it's the story of time-traveling Kung Fu action hero told through photographs.

It failed to attract any backers, though, and ended up in the archives at Kickended, a site dedicated to failed Kickstarters with no support at all. Perhaps the vague description and lack of images doomed Black Belt Brown to obscurity.

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Some Kickstarters finish their runs with absolutely no backers at all. That's what happened to an odd project that combines a carbon-fiber surfboard with an integrated LCD flat panel that acts as a clock, music player, video player and calendar. It cost a whopping $375 for a 40-inch-long version with the LCD. That's a lot for a surfboard that can never go in the water.

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The Match Holders 2.0 project was founded on the idea that "some of us just love using matches." The match holders were little shot-glass-like containers designed to hold a bunch of matches in one place,  with a $10 pledge price for a single holder.

Apparently, there weren't enough match lovers to pledge even $1 to the project.

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A series of specialized T-shirts aimed at beauty professionals failed to catch on with Kickstarter backers in early 2014. Though the designs were certainly eye-catching (featuring nail polish splashes, hair scissors and eye makeup), it wasn't enough to convince even a single backer to sign up to push the project toward its $15,000 goal. This is one of thousands of projects collected on Kickended, a site dedicated to $0-pledge projects.

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