Obviously, Privcycoin chose the same path as many coins in the past, building a strong community and then relying on the power of the community to develop. But I have to say that the development of cryptocurrency is now completely different from the past. A strong community is not enough. It also requires strong marketing. Exchanges that always rely on members to help vote to go public are not good exchanges. Those more well-known exchanges need money for listing.
Yes, most popular exchanges asking for crazy listing fees. Like HITBTC asking for around 30BTC to get listed and they don't care if it's pump and dump coin. Saw it few times, they listed useless coins and delisted it after few months due to pump and dump accusations. So it's good to take things slow with exchanges.