diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 16fb499..efff1f6 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -121,10 +121,15 @@ jobs:
       - checkout
       - run:
           name: Heroku Deploy
-          command: git push https://heroku:$HEROKU_API_KEY@git.heroku.com/$HEROKU_APP_NAME.git HEAD:master
+          command: git push https://heroku:$HEROKU_API_KEY@git.heroku.com/$HEROKU_APP_NAME.git HEAD:main
       - run:
           name: Smoke Test
-          command: echo todo && false
+          command: |-
+            HTTPCODE=`curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" https://$HEROKU_APP_NAME.herokuapp.com/`
+              if [ "$HTTPCODE" -ne 200 ];then
+                echo "heroku app not responding, failing deploy"
+                exit 1
+              fi
 
 workflows:
   version: 2