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You can do this with something like Nextcloud. Just set up a folder shared by a link and you’re able to make it a drop box of sorts that anyone can upload to.
Obviously, be careful allowing arbitrary uploads from the whole internet. I’d set a time limit on the share so people can’t upload junk forever.
I do run Nextcloud on my home server, and in an ideal world I would like to use it as I have sufficient disk space, even though my internet connection speet would be the bottleneck. The problem is, I am at the moment hidden behind a hell of a NAT maze and my server is simply not accessible from outside, even with VPN.
I have found out in the meantime, As you said, I found out as well, Nextcloud permit uploading without need for signing up. I am now thinking about setting up an acount at some Nextcloud provider, but they seem to by limited by capacity...
Check into Cloudflare tunnel or Tailscale funnel. Those are two of essentially the same type of product that take out most of the work of getting you around CGNAT.
Did you try Tailscale? It is working behind gnat
I know of it but haven't tried it yet. For my personal needs I actually use Zerotier to connect to my server remotely, but having two IP adresses is a bit anoying and not family friendly. Also it doesn't work 100% of the time, sometimes I have troubles connecting. When the right time comes and I will get my IPv6 address I will switch to Wireguard to tunnel home, but until then...
In my case right now, any VPN is out of question, as it doesn't meet the no-authorization condition, and I don't want 60 people poking around on my LAN.
But thanks anyway, I might try Tailscape over zerotier to see if it is better.
If you want to make your NextCloud available to the internet it’s pretty easy (and very reliable) to do so with cloudflare tunnels.
I had Setup nextcloud for this scenario for two weddings now - share a folder, create a QR code for the URL and print that on flyers, cards, whatever is handed out to the guests. Folder is set to upload only, so it's much like a "just place your files here"-link. Add another share link with read/write permissions to the same folder if needed, create a second QR code and you're good to go :-)
Depending on what permissions the "guests" should have, keep in mind that person a could delete person B's photos (un-) intentionally, so I would go for read only access if you have like inexperienced or old users, that don't know technology so well.