[arkonaut]

There's no guarantee of getting your money back if a project fails on Kickstarter though... http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/22/why-this-jilted-kickstarte...

[neltnerb]

There could easily be more of a guarantee if you host it through your own website. If you don't finish the project, and didn't explicitly state that funding was to "try" rather than a preorder, I'd see it as far more likely to be finished.