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Life & fun · October 22, 2020

mcbroken

Is the McDonald's ice cream machine broken?

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mcbroken is a service that tracks broken McDonald's ice cream machines across the United States. The tool places automated orders at McDonald's locations nationwide to identify which machines are malfunctioning. It's designed for customers frustrated by unavailable ice cream and displays results on an interactive map. The project was created by reverse engineering McDonald's internal ordering system to systematically test machine availability across locations.

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I reverse engineered mcdonald's internal ordering api and I'm currently placing an order for a mc sundae every minute at every mcdonald's location in the US to figure out which ones have a broken ice cream machine

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