diff --git a/.github/workflows/main.yaml b/.github/workflows/main.yaml
index 14a71c1..c9a9de8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/main.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/main.yaml
@@ -94,6 +94,9 @@ jobs:
       - name: Compile SLEdge
         run: |
           make runtime
+      - name: Install wasm_apps link
+        run: |
+          make wasm_apps
       # TODO:Cache assets before being copied to ./runtime/bin
       - name: Cache gocr
         uses: actions/cache@v2
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 9c078b4..361ba0e 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ dkms.conf
 
 runtime/tags
 runtime/bin
+applications/wasm_apps
 applications/tmp/
 applications/**/*.csv
 applications/**/*.txt
diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index bfb6e77..6bf13eb 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -12,7 +12,3 @@
 [submodule "jsmn"]
 	path = runtime/thirdparty/jsmn
 	url = https://github.com/gwsystems/jsmn.git
-[submodule "wasm_apps"]
-	path = applications/wasm_apps
-	url = https://github.com/gwsystems/wasm_apps.git
-	branch = master
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 47c5e8c..929f95a 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ submodules:
 	git submodule update --init --recursive
 
 .PHONY: install
-install: submodules all
+install: submodules wasm_apps all
 
 # aWsm: the WebAssembly to LLVM bitcode compiler
 .PHONY: awsm
@@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ applications:
 applications.clean:
 	make -C applications clean
 
+# Instead of having two copies of wasm_apps, just link to the awsm repo's copy
+wasm_apps:
+	ln -sr awsm/applications/wasm_apps/ applications/
+
 # Tests
 .PHONY: test
 test:
diff --git a/applications/wasm_apps b/applications/wasm_apps
deleted file mode 160000
index 3f5bc00..0000000
--- a/applications/wasm_apps
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 3f5bc009f71c9561bfb4f3b08b47aa53983ef0f9