{"id":96147,"date":"2020-10-23T15:16:21","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T12:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-one-programmer-tracks-every-broken-mcdonalds-ice-cream-machine-review-geek\/"},"modified":"2020-10-23T15:16:21","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T12:16:21","slug":"how-one-programmer-tracks-every-broken-mcdonalds-ice-cream-machine-review-geek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-one-programmer-tracks-every-broken-mcdonalds-ice-cream-machine-review-geek\/","title":{"rendered":"#How One Programmer Tracks Every Broken McDonalds Ice Cream Machine \u2013 Review Geek"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#How One Programmer Tracks Every Broken McDonalds Ice Cream Machine \u2013 Review Geek”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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McBroken<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We all love a cheap and delicious McFlurry\u2014when we can get one. McDonald\u2019s ice cream machines always seem to be broken, to the point that many people won\u2019t bother ordering frozen treats at the drive-thru. The solution? A live map<\/a> that tracks every McDonald\u2019s ice cream machine in real-time.<\/p>\n

McBroken <\/a>is a McDonald\u2019s ice cream-tracking website developed by 24-year-old software engineer Rashiq Zahid. Every McDonald\u2019s restaurant in the US app<\/a>ears on the map as a green or red dot. Green dots stand for locations with a working ice cream machine, while the countless red dots on McBroken denote a non-working ice cream machine.<\/p>\n

The McBroken website also displays some ice cream statistics. At the time of writing, 9.89% of McDonald\u2019s ice cream machines are inoperable, with nearly a quarter of the broken machines residing in New York. (To be fair, New York is very McDonald\u2019s-dense. Ice cream machines in New York may break just as often as they do in small towns.)<\/p>\n

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I reverse engineered mcdonald’s internal api and I’m currently placing an order worth $18,752 every minute at every mcdonald’s in the US to figure out which locations have a broken ice cream machine https:\/\/t.co\/2KsRwAdrMd<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 rashiq (@rashiq) October 22, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But how does McBroken know when an ice cream machine is out of order? Programmer Zahid realized that, as McDonald\u2019s ice cream machines go out of order, employees manually mark ice cream as \u201cunavailable\u201d through the McDonald\u2019s mobile app. Every half hour, McBroken attempts to order ice cream from McDonald\u2019s locations across the US, keeping track of locations that refuse to add ice cream products to the mobile shopping cart. (Orders are never paid for, so ice cream is never wasted.)<\/p>\n

Zahid first tested McBroken in Germany. According to a report by The Verge<\/em><\/a>, he biked around every location in Berlin to check McBroken\u2019s accuracy. The website, which launched in the US October 22nd, already has over 200,000 visitors. Even the top brass at McDonald\u2019s are excited about McBroken, and McDonald\u2019s VP of US Communications praised the website<\/a> hours after its launch.<\/p>\n

Source: Rashiq Zahid<\/a>, The Verge<\/a><\/small>\n<\/div>\n