diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index ed8227b..09f8ec4 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -121,11 +121,15 @@ jobs:
       - checkout
       - run:
           name: Heroku Deploy
-          command: git push https://heroku:830872a7-1ed3-4b23-b574-559b05788911@git.heroku.com/nameless-woodland-24979.git HEAD:main
+          command: git push https://heroku:$HEROKU_API_KEY830872a7-1ed3-4b23-b574-559b05788911@git.heroku.com/nameless-woodland-24979.git HEAD:main
       - run:
           name: Smoke Test
-          command: | 
-            HTTPCODE=`curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" https://nameless-woodland-24979.herokuapp.com/` if [[ "$HTTPCODE" -ne 200 ]]; then echo "heroku app not responding, failing deploy" \ exit 1; \ fi 
+          command: |
+            HTTPCODE=curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" https://nameless-woodland-24979.herokuapp.com/
+            if [[ "$HTTPCODE" -ne 200 ]]; then
+              echo "heroku app not responding, failing deploy" \
+              exit 1; \
+            fi
 
 workflows:
   version: 2