I like your suggestion of making the nav box minimizable. That could reduce the actions to just icons, taking up very little space. A bar across the top would be nice too, but I have other plans for that space... :)
Hi, I'm the creator of Zoomii. I've been (mostly) lurking on Hacker News for some time now.
Thanks for the feedback. It is very slow on FF3 right now, due I think to its slow scaled-image rendering and tossing of uncompressed image data whenever leaving the tab. But it looks like using a CANVAS will actually make FF3 the fastest browser for Zoomii. Working on it. Hope to deploy that today.
I failed at two startups before my current one, which is close to launch. After each failure I took a break, feeling weak and like failure just like you are. But time heals all wounds. Before too much time had passed (a couple years) the excitement (and finances) had returned, and I jumped back in the game. I feel much, much stronger for the experience of those 2 failed startups. I don't regret them one bit. Sooner or later you'll probably feel grateful and happy for the experience you had, failure or no. Why not start now?