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Gradical Maps the Cheapest Route Through College

gradical.app ↗ · Learning & Exams · score 82.0
○Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content ✦Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation ◆Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature ◇Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case ◉Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

Gradical uses prerequisite chains, transfer agreements, and credit-by-exam options to build faster, lower-cost degree plans.

Why it surfaced

This is unusually concrete education advice: the site compares a $97 CLEP exam with roughly $1,195 in course fees and cites California articulation data, College Board pricing, and community-college tuition. It also turns the research into a $100, 60-minute session with a written, source-cited plan.

The Two-Tonne Temperature Problem

August 15’s newborn domains include a live-aboard hydrogen airship with a two-tonne lift problem, a Japanese toolbox that explains its assumptions, an advisory-by-advisory Hawaiʻi hurricane archive, and a wedding-gift game about ungrateful poultry.

This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-15 Domain Arrivals issue.