Redirection or Coming Soon page?

I have a SaaS product in development, I bought the domain and I wanna add a blog section while I'm coding the actual product.

The product will be reached from root directory while blog will be located in /blog directory.

https://example.com --> Project Page
https://example.com/blog --> Blog

Since root directory will be empty while the actual product is not released yet, I have 2 options:

1. Setting a coming soon page
2. Setting a 302 redirection root dir to /blog

Which one should I do? Which way will Google hate me less? I faced some problems with favicons when I redirected my root page to blog directory before so I'm asking.

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Make sure to hide your coming soon page from web crawlers, or it could negatively impact your SEO when your app actually launches.
I personally think there's no reason to do it unless you need some sort of proof of its existence. Like, if you are a startup that hasn't gone public yet, but also wants to build hype for their yet to launch service. I wouldn't bother for something like a Portfolio or brochure site.

sisilynora said:

Make sure to hide your coming soon page from web crawlers, or it could negatively impact your SEO when your app actually launches.
I personally think there's no reason to do it unless you need some sort of proof of its existence. Like, if you are a startup that hasn't gone public yet, but also wants to build hype for their yet to launch service. I wouldn't bother for something like a Portfolio or brochure site.

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It's kind of a startup indeed. Thanks for the advice I'll edit my robots.txt to hide root dir.

ozanthedeveloper said:

Which one should I do?

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In my opinion, You can better do the "coming soon" page on the root directory of your domain.