> Also requiring a .edu email is a good start.

Not really, unless the intent is to discriminate against immigrants to the US / people outside the US / people who went straight into a career from high school.

I did go to college, but that was a decade ago, and I no longer have an edu address.

It looks like the service is targeted at students (US based) and academic researchers. If this is the case, the the email filter makes sense... especially for a launch. It’s not perfect, but a good start.

Why assume nefarious motivations?

Not necessarily nefarious, just myopic.

Why would you want to require a .edu? Seems like it closes it off to a lot of people (especially globally, but also within the US).

Sounds a bit like elitism. It asumes that people with .edu addresses are somehow better as first users.

GP maybe has Facebook in mind that did exactly this.

That was when facebook was meant as an internal platform for colleges though, I don't understand why a platform for hosting bios/resumes publicly would want/need that restriction.

3rd party tracking works fine without JS.

Early in my career I made an access log analyzer, 2005ish. I never browsed the web normally after that. That’d be a good primer exercise for people learning to code, with lessons beyond coding in itself.