Custom software & internal tools
Dispatch boards, schedulers, dashboards: the tool your business needs and nobody sells. Written for the job, hosted by me, yours to keep.
Schrader Services LLC · Portland, Oregon
Networks that behave. Software that fits. Nothing you babysit.
I'm Nick Schrader. I design networks, write the software nobody sells off the shelf, and run the platforms below out of my own rack. If it plugs in, routes, or runs on a schedule, I can build it and keep it running.
Est. Portland
What I do for hire
Six things, done properly.
Network design & installation
Addressing, segments, Wi-Fi coverage that was measured rather than guessed, and firewall rules written down in English.
Automation & integration
The Monday report, the file somebody re-types, the alert nobody gets. If it follows a rule, it should not need a person.
Consulting & diagnosis
I measure what is slow or flaky, say what is wrong in plain words, and give you the options with real numbers.
Hosting & site management
Your site on hardware I own and maintain: certificates, backups, uptime watching, and a person who answers when it breaks.
Structured cabling & media panels
CAT6 runs, wall ports, patch panels, media panels and TV mounting, terminated, tested and labelled at both ends.
Built here, running now
The platforms.
Each one is designed, hosted and supported in-house, and each one has somebody other than me depending on it. The screens are mock-ups of the live interfaces, shown without client data.
ksch.stream
A radio station run by virtual DJs.
Virtual presenters host the hours: they read the program log, talk between songs, take requests from the chat and read a verified local wire. The hour is a real sixty minutes, and the times on the log are the times things go out.
Behind them is a working broadcast console: an on-air rail, a cart wall, clock and grid scheduling, traffic campaigns with affidavit reports.
- Virtual DJsunscripted, every hour different
- Program logwhat played, what is cued, to the second
- Requests from chatfound, scheduled, announced
- Traffic & affidavitsairtime sold, proof delivered
schrad.works
Dispatch that reaches the truck.
Work orders a crew opens on a phone, a booth screen at the job, and devices that report in on time. A dispatcher moves a job and the crew's phone changes in the same second.
Open schrad.works
wire.schradernator.com
StationWire, the newsroom database.
Local news, traffic, transit and weather pulled from credible sources, cross-checked and timestamped into one source of truth. It is what the DJs read on air.
Open StationWire
ai.schradernator.com
KIRA AI, on my own GPU.
A local model with a job: it watches the network, reads the logs, draws logos and builds the voices the radio station uses. No API key, no bill per token, nothing leaves the house.
Interface concept · the live instance is private
library.schradernator.com
Sunbear Books, the household library.
Every ebook and audiobook in one shared library, each reader's own place in every book, narration made on the GPU, and a projector mode driven from a phone.
Open Sunbear BooksWhy it holds up
Own hardware. No open ports.
Nothing listens
Every public site dials out through its own encrypted tunnel. There is nothing on the house address to find, knock on, or scan.
Isolated by job
Each site lives in its own container with its own filesystem. Client work never shares a disk with an experiment.
Heavy work stays off the servers
Models, voices and images render on a GPU workstation. The machines serving the sites stay light and stay up.
Nothing thrown away
The whole rack began as hardware headed for landfill. Reuse is cheaper, greener, and a better education than buying the answer.
Free tools
Field Tools
A length converter for cable runs and a QR code generator for labels and signage. Free to use, with no account required.
Meters ⇄ Feet
Convert cable lengths in either direction. Type in either box and the other updates, with the result in decimal feet and in feet and inches.
Exact by definition: 1 ft = 0.3048 m.
QR Code Generator
Create a QR code for a link, a Wi-Fi network or contact details, and download it as a PNG ready for labels, signage and equipment tags.
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Contact
Tell me what you are trying to do.
A run you need pulled, a network that has never worked properly, a site that needs a home, a platform you want built or licensed. Start typing and it comes straight to my phone.
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