First Deploy to Production - Limit to Index Only?

Hopefully a quick question - is it possible with little to no effort to push just the Index to production (i.e. get SEO started and some coming soon marketing, register here for an update when available) while keeping the rest of the pages tucked away?

I think if you had two development versions it would be. Could have one dev version with just index and deploy that to live, while the other dev version has all other pages including index.

Or, create save point. Then delete everything except index. Deploy to live. Then in Dev version do history and revert to save point.