back on cinematch today, mostly turning the models into something you can actually use. wrapped everything behind a facade class so theres one clean api (get_recommendations, get_similar_movies, cold start fold-in, explanations) instead of poking at each model directly. then built a cli with subcommands - recommend, similar, search, newuser, compare etc - which made testing way faster. after that did the streamlit app, four tabs: personalized recs with the “because you liked x,y,z” reasons, a similar-movies search, a new-user cold start page, and a model comparison page with the rmse/precision charts. kinda satisfying seeing the numbers from the terminal turn into an actual clickable ui. small stuff slowed me down (forgot to activate the venv once, a typo’d argparse arg) but nothing major. everything pushed to github. next up is tests + cleaning the readme, then trying to deploy the streamlit app.