Pin Pics was started by Britt Yenne and his wife Susan (a.k.a. Figgy) in December of 1999. They had just returned from a trip to Walt Disney World and had become hooked on Disney pin trading. Britt is a professional software designer who works for The Kernel Group based in Austin, Texas. Susan is a domestic goddess whose three employees were ages five, two, and six months at that time.

Pin Pics officially became "pinpics.com" in January of 2000, and Frank Lozito of Celebration, Florida, joined the team. Frank also works in the computer industry, and designed the initial user interface for Pin Pics while Britt devoted his time to the underlying database and CGI components. Britt and Frank also collaborated with Beverly Wilks of Dizpins.Com, our sister site. Beverly and Dizpins handled news and message boards, while Pin Pics handled pin information. It was, and continues to be, a symbiotic relationship.

In the months that followed, Pin Pics quickly outgrew two different web hosting providers for a variety of reasons including traffic volume, hacker attack, disk space, and CPU consumption. We were very lucky to meet Kathryn Bell of IXC Telecom, a regular of The DIS. Also avid Disney pin enthusiasts, Kathryn and her husband Gary own IXC Telecom and were gracious enough to donate hosting services for PinPics. IXC Telecom no longer hosts the site, but this does not reflect upon the contributions they have made to this community.

Dominic Pereyo, a part time graphic artist from Connecticut, joined the team in June of 2001. His experience designing logos, t-shirts, patches, hats, and yes even PINS has been invaluable in redesigning our site layout and making the site more visually appealing. Dom designed our awesome PinPics pin, and will be trying to improve the quailty of the images in the Pin Pics Database by brightening and clarifying them as much as possible.

And last but certainly not least, we are all the pin enthusiasts who contribute to this community so that all may benefit. It couldn't be done without all of you.

Our goal is to make Pin Pics the definitive repository for pin information and trading. No pin selling is allowed on Pin Pics, and we are very restrictive about the use of advertisers (if any) to recover costs. The only profit from Pin Pics is the information we all share together, and most agree that it is paying off much better than anyone originally expected.