There like an addiction with looking everyday at metrics of your app. How many people are using the app right now, how many yesterday, how many download, do you keep increase our seo traffic...
As long as those values keep going in the right direction we feel OK, but I wonder if it's distracting me from important work. It's also hard to only look at the right metrics. In the book Lean Startup, the author talk about "vanity metrics". It's the one like the total number of downloads or views...
It might be even dangerous to focus too much on the wrong kind of metrics. It doesn't matter if the number of downloads keep going up if your visitor uninstall the app a few seconds later. It's like pouring water in a very leaky bucket.