Show HN: Draw characters to help computers read human handwriting

Is this even useful? Handwriting is a well studied problem with good solutions, and we have lots of data (MNIST, etc.)

Can someone explain why we need humans to create new, unreliably labeled datasets?

Who gets the data? You alone? I.e. what is the incentive to use this?

Doesn't seem to work. Getting javascript errors on Chrome 46.0.2.

Update: works fine in chrome's device emulator. Didn't realize this was only for mobile devices, but it makes sense.

    Sorry. We only accept drawings
    made with a touch-screen device

So ... I'm using a touch-screen device. Why am I getting this message?

Neat idea! Two questions:

- Do you verify inputs to ensure they are at least reasonably valid and not trolling? - I'm getting a lot of numbers and certain letters, are you specifically trying to get the problem cases solved? If so, good idea - but how does it do right now?

Wouldn't complete words be more useful? People probably change the way they write certain letters based on the adjacent letters.