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From creator[1]: “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 fi

by aliabd 6y ago

From creator[1]: “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” [1] https://twitter.com/rashiq/status/1319346264992026624 https://twitter.com/rashiq/status/1319346264992026624

duxup 6y ago
Hard to imagine that lasts long...
- samtheprogram 6y ago
  It seems the first explanation given wasn’t entirely accurate (or is at least misleading), as they continued roughly 50 minutes later: > to clarify how this works: mcdonald's keeps track which locations have a broken machine, I'm merely querying for those - no order gets executed, no ice cream is actually wasted Maybe in reality, the order is created, but not actually “placed” in order to query the above info? Or maybe the first tweet was simply clickbait... https://twitter.com/rashiq/status/1319358458429345795?s=20 https://twitter.com/rashiq/status/1319358458429345795?s=20
  - morenoh149 6y ago
    Clickbait for sure
  - corentin88 6y ago
    What I’m understanding is that the order is placed, meaning it’s in checkout. But he’s not actually fulfilling it, meaning he didn’t ordered/paid for ice creams for real.
    - city41 6y ago
      Someone on Twitter also mentioned ice cream orders don't actually get filled until you arrive at the restaurant (which does make sense), providing an extra fail-safe for this.
      - Scoundreller 6y ago
        I’m not sure if it’s a regular request, or so regular that it’s automatic, but in France, if you order an eat-in meal with ice cream, they don’t make the ice cream until you come back to the counter with your receipt and request it.
  - corobo 6y ago
    Don't make joke a subcategory of clickbait, hacker news. come on now
    - exolymph 6y ago
      If your "joke" is structured to sound sincere and be misleading, it's clickbait.
      - corobo 6y ago
        If your joke is structured to sound sincere and be misleading it's called a joke... that's literally what a joke is
        exolymph 6y ago
        Uh, no, many jokes count on the audience being in on it.
- deleted 6y ago
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pat_space 6y ago
Yes, that was a joke: https://twitter.com/rashiq/status/1319358458429345795 https://twitter.com/rashiq/status/1319358458429345795
- morenoh149 6y ago
  They were just taking the opportunity to make their work more hype worthy. Typical marketing garbage.
vlunkr 6y ago
I'm curious why the order has to be worth that much? Couldn't just be an order for one ice cream product?
- ARandomerDude 6y ago
  I'm guessing his statement was unclear. It's probably (1 ice cream product) * (number of US locations) = $18,752
- nickthegreek 6y ago
  it is an order of one across every location.
  - jessaustin 6y ago
    It's funny that this is possible. An altruist could create an order for "give a cheeseburger to that one guy who hangs around outside every McDonald's".
    - brokenmachine 6y ago
      If you never pay for and complete the order, nobody gets a cheeseburger.
- majewsky 6y ago
  One ice cream product per store worldwide, presumably.

by aliabd 6y ago

duxup 6y ago

Hard to imagine that lasts long...

samtheprogram 6y ago
It seems the first explanation given wasn’t entirely accurate (or is at least misleading), as they continued roughly 50 minutes later: > to clarify how this works: mcdonald's keeps track which locations have a broken machine, I'm merely querying for those - no order gets executed, no ice cream is actually wasted Maybe in reality, the order is created, but not actually “placed” in order to query the above info? Or maybe the first tweet was simply clickbait... https://twitter.com/rashiq/status/1319358458429345795?s=20 https://twitter.com/rashiq/status/1319358458429345795?s=20
- morenoh149 6y ago
  Clickbait for sure
- corentin88 6y ago
  What I’m understanding is that the order is placed, meaning it’s in checkout. But he’s not actually fulfilling it, meaning he didn’t ordered/paid for ice creams for real.
  - city41 6y ago
    Someone on Twitter also mentioned ice cream orders don't actually get filled until you arrive at the restaurant (which does make sense), providing an extra fail-safe for this.
    - Scoundreller 6y ago
      I’m not sure if it’s a regular request, or so regular that it’s automatic, but in France, if you order an eat-in meal with ice cream, they don’t make the ice cream until you come back to the counter with your receipt and request it.
- corobo 6y ago
  Don't make joke a subcategory of clickbait, hacker news. come on now
  - exolymph 6y ago
    If your "joke" is structured to sound sincere and be misleading, it's clickbait.
    - corobo 6y ago
      If your joke is structured to sound sincere and be misleading it's called a joke... that's literally what a joke is
      - exolymph 6y ago
        Uh, no, many jokes count on the audience being in on it.
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pat_space 6y ago

Yes, that was a joke: https://twitter.com/rashiq/status/1319358458429345795 https://twitter.com/rashiq/status/1319358458429345795

morenoh149 6y ago
They were just taking the opportunity to make their work more hype worthy. Typical marketing garbage.

vlunkr 6y ago

I'm curious why the order has to be worth that much? Couldn't just be an order for one ice cream product?

ARandomerDude 6y ago
I'm guessing his statement was unclear. It's probably (1 ice cream product) * (number of US locations) = $18,752
nickthegreek 6y ago
it is an order of one across every location.
- jessaustin 6y ago
  It's funny that this is possible. An altruist could create an order for "give a cheeseburger to that one guy who hangs around outside every McDonald's".
  - brokenmachine 6y ago
    If you never pay for and complete the order, nobody gets a cheeseburger.
majewsky 6y ago
One ice cream product per store worldwide, presumably.