Why nobody texts the host their baby shower photos
A shower guest list is the least connected guest list of any party: college friends who have not met the in-laws, two coworkers, a neighbor, an aunt who flew in. Asking a stranger’s coworker to text you their pictures afterwards essentially never happens — they do not have your number, and asking for it is one awkwardness too many at a party about diapers.
A printed code removes the whole negotiation. You create the event in under a minute, print one QR code for the gift table, and guests upload from the phone as the afternoon goes. They tap the code, pick their photos, and type a name once so you know later who took the good one of the grandmothers.
What you end up with is the afternoon as the room saw it: the games running in the background, the reactions during the gift opening, the bump photos taken by a friend with a better eye than the rest of you, and the decor before thirty people sat down in it. None of that is on the host’s phone, because the host was busy.
It also stays where you put it. Nothing is public, nothing is indexed by search engines, and the gallery opens only for people you gave the code to — which matters at a shower, where plenty of families are still careful about who sees what and when.