It seems your biggest concern is listing on exchanges. We're doing our best to get listed VOT on as many exchanges as possible.
We've submitted VOT to several exchanges, the bigger ones and smaller ones as well:
Yobit.net - we've submitted on Oct 21. VOT is still not listed there. We contacted support and sill waiting for their answer. That's all we can do for now.
HitBTC - as much as we'd like to have listed VOT there, their 15 BTC fee for 6 months listing seems ridiculously high to us. We're not going to pay such high fee. Anyway, we've submitted VOT there using their form hoping they will like VOT and list it for free. We are still waiting for their answer.
Cryptopia - their current listing fee is 5.000.000 DOT - that equals to approx. 6 BTC now. It is too high for us. We'd rather pour that money into VOT development. We did our research and found out that cryptopia listed coins for as low as 400.000 DOT in the past. They simply have too many coin listing requests now, so they inflated their listing price. We monitor cryptopia and as soon as they lower their listing fee to reasonable level we will submit VOT immediately.
NovaExchange - we've emailed them our submission, but before we heard back from them, they announced that they are closing their exchange.
Tradesatoshi - dropping price really does not stress us that much. Only weak hands are selling at these low levels. At the time of writing this post there were 14.946.125 VOT in circulation. Only 230.000 VOT is offered for sale on TS below the ICO price. That is less that 2% of available coins. If the price on TS was such big concern for us, we would simply deposit 0.5 BTC to TS and drive the price up to 0.00000570 BTC easily. We do not have the need to manipulate the price.
We've strengthened our development team and after some research, the team agreed on using Electron (https://electron.atom.io/) for developing of our GUI wallet. Electron can be used to code multiplatform applications, so we should be able to release GUI wallet for all operating systems at once. Initial work has already started.
No one commits on github in the last month simply because VOT has finished and fully working code.
We've implemented a few minor fixes or added parameters in the VOT core client recently.
We're now testing those changes and if everything runs smoothly we will release it on GitHub as soon as possible.
There is also something cooking with Slax (https://www.slax.org/) and VOT. Slax was downloaded and used by millions. That is solid user base to start with. Stay tuned for some news soon.
Making GUI wallet is the right choice for now. After that, community will bigger. And that is right time to pay for Crypropia.