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Posted by manveerc 9/12/2025

OpenAI Grove(openai.com)
178 points | 165 commentspage 2
dvfjsdhgfv 9/12/2025|
I first misread it as "OpenAI Grave" where someone would put the list of all discontinued models.
TZubiri 9/12/2025||
"it offers pre-idea individuals" wtf

If ideas are a dime a dozen, what even is a pre-idea startup

ALittleLight 9/13/2025|
Talented individual(s) who want to do a startup.
vasilzhigilei 9/12/2025||
It looks like application submission isn't functioning.
jtfrench 9/12/2025||
Yeah, clicking "Submit" doesn't do anything obvious, aside from post some arcane errors to the JavaScript Console.
TZubiri 9/12/2025||
lmao, was this vibe coded?
jtfrench 9/14/2025||
Highly likely.
mandeepj 9/13/2025||
Do a hard refresh while console is open; that'd fix it!
Hadriel 9/13/2025||
15 ppl in first cohort? Aka dont bother applying.
willahmad 9/13/2025||
I think what they are trying to do is a type of forward deployed engineer, but with no employment.

More they train such engineers more profitable for them to spread the word.

In 1st cohort, they're probably going to accept extrovert people with active social presence.

hollerith 9/13/2025||
What would be nice is a "grove" I can flee to where I'd be immune to the effects of OpenAI and the other AI labs.

Alas, such grove is impossible.

NickNaraghi 9/13/2025||
Everyone at YC should be upset that sama continues to cannibalize the YC value proposition. First funding, then mindshare, and now this.
999900000999 9/13/2025||
What exactly do I need to do to qualify.

I'm working on a prototype right now, guess I'll toss my hat in the ring.

Fortune favors the bold.

Cheer2171 9/12/2025|
> "pre-idea individuals"
jsheard 9/12/2025||
Move over "idea guys", it's the era of the "guy who hypothetically might have an idea at some point".
bilbo0s 9/12/2025|||
I don't know man?

To me, it sounded like, "let's find all the idea guys who can't afford a tech founder. Then we'll see which ones have the best ideas, and move forward with those. As a bonus, we'll know exactly where we'd be able to acquihire a product manager for it!"

babyshake 9/12/2025||
If OpenAI needs a bunch of PMs, they will increasingly be able to spin some up, not hire humans.
arcticfox 9/12/2025|||
I've got concepts of an idea
impossiblefork 9/14/2025|||
I think pre-idea people should just go do a PhD.

I think I had ideas when I started. Naïve ideas, but still ideas, but I think having no idea yet is fine.

MPSimmons 9/12/2025|||
I caught that too. What's a "pre-idea" individual? Someone who... wants the vague _idea_ of a company?
spiderice 9/12/2025||
No, before that
fkyoureadthedoc 9/12/2025||
It's the AI guy version of the blockchain guy who had no idea what it was for or what to do with it, but was very hyped on it
tibbon 9/12/2025|||
I mean, I get it.

I'm highly capable of building some great things, but at my dayjob I'm filled to brim with things to do and a non-ending list of tasks in front of me.

I've built cool stuff before, and if given a little push and some support could probably come up with something useful - and I can implement much of it myself.

Put me in the room with cool people, throw out some conversation starters, shake it up and I'll come up with something.

babelfish 9/12/2025||
South Park Commons -1 to 0 program seems conceptually similar
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