diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 27778b0..ca2d83b 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -110,7 +110,11 @@ jobs:
           command: git push https://heroku:19f982bf-2f59-4708-a7f4-3b471dab997e@git.heroku.com/ancient-wildwood-44370.git HEAD:main
       - run:
           name: Smoke Test
-          command: HTTPCODE=`curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" https://ancient-wildwood-44370.herokuapp.com/` if [ "$HTTPCODE" -ne 200 ];then echo "heroku app not responding, failing deploy" exit 1 fi
+          command: HTTPCODE=`curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" https://$HEROKU_APP_NAME.herokuapp.com/`
+                    if [ "$HTTPCODE" -ne 200 ];then
+                      echo "heroku app not responding, failing deploy"
+                      exit 1
+                    fi 
 
 workflows:
   version: 2