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Life & fun · October 22, 2020

mcbroken

Is the McDonald's ice cream machine broken?

mcbroken launched on October 22, 2020 with 387 votes, #38 of 4,018 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.

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In plain words

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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From the sources

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

Real time tracker for 30,000+ McDonald

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