About HIF
Highlights
Hey, It’s Free! (HIF) is an awesome website run by the coolest person in the world, Goob. It’s dedicated to finding the best freebies on the ‘net. Period.
You will never need a credit card or a single dime to get any of the freebies posted on HIF. The only things you need in order to have an enjoyable time around here is a mailing address and a sense of humor, not necessarily in that order.
Huh?
Ok, let me start again. If you haven’t guessed by now, we deal with freebies here at HIF. Real, 100%, no joke freebies. Are they always the best products in the world? Well, as our freebie reviews have shown time and time again, not quite. But that still doesn’t mean there aren’t some awesome freebies out there. To date, I’ve gotten plenty of t-shirts, pens, coffee mugs, calendars, coupons, candy, and tons of other little knickknacks - all for free! I’ve been in the freebie business for over three years now and would easy consider myself a Freebie Expert when it comes to the art of finding stuff for free. If it’s out there on the ‘net, you can be sure that we’ll post it here on HIF!
While I own and run HIF, that doesn’t mean this is a one man show. Joining me on the front page and helping me post funny freebies are Adam and Shaynon. Furthermore, my two right hand men (well, man and woman!) are PrincessPru and Undrallio, who diligently help me moderate the forums for spam. In addition, the forums themselves wouldn’t work at all without all the members who post there on a daily basis. Without any of these people, HIF would be a shell of what it is now and I thank each and every one of them.
If you have any other questions, first check out the FAQ section. If your query isn’t already answered there, contact me and I’ll get back to ya soon.
Staff
Goob - The ringleader of this circus, Goob started HIF years ago and is still in charge. So all complaints, compliments, and drunken thoughts should be directed towards him. When he’s not hunting freebies, he can be found coming up with absurd stories on his personal site. His hobbies include reading, disproving the Scientific Method, and molding busts of Napoleon Bonaparte out of tin foil.
Adam - Eccentric and creative in his own right, Adam is somewhat of a self appointed enigma to balance out Goob’s personality… or so he’d like to think. When he’s not working hard on hardly working, he can be found at his own website, writing abstract prose and music, reading political books and poetry, heckling bad sci-fi and horror movies with his wife, or chasing his cats around with freeze dried salmon pieces while wearing an ALF mask.
Shaynon - A self proclaimed pink girl and writer of freebie reviews, found HIF by accident. Finding her calling writing freebie reviews for the loyal readers she has finally found her home. When she’s not being her sun shinny self to everyone she is making trouble and having fun with fellow hiffer and pink girl Froggie. Going coupon crazy alongside the masses and having blonde moments daily are a few of her hobbies. When not playing her part in the awesomeness that is HIF, she likes to write, read everything, make the world pink and stalk those she loves.
Technical Stuff
HeyItsFree.net is registered from GoDaddy and is hosted by the wonderful folks over at QuickPacket. The workhorses powering HIF are Wordpress, far too many plugins to name, and a whole lot of free coffee!
Many of the icons and images on HIF are part of the Silk package, which is available for free from Fam Fam Fam. The forums are a highly modified version of Invision Power Board.
I’d also like to thank Nurudin Jauhari and Spiga for the wonderful Wordpress themes they give away for free, some of which I used to construct the current HIF design.
