diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index ea306d8..36ac999 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -116,15 +116,6 @@ jobs:
       - run:
           name: Heroku Deploy
           command: git push https://heroku:$HEROKU_API_KEY@git.heroku.com/$HEROKU_APP_NAME.git main
-
-      - run:
-          name: Smoke Test
-          command: |
-            HTTPCODE=`curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" https://$HEROKU_APP_NAME.herokuapp.com/api/articles`
-            if [ "$HTTPCODE" -ne 200 ]; then
-              echo "heroku app not responding, failing deploy"
-              exit 1
-            fi
 workflows:
   version: 2
   build-back-deploy: